[nsp] 12.2(14)S ifOperStatus = 6

[Mikhail Assiaev]

Hello everyone,

a few days ago we upgraded IOS on 7206VXR/NSE-1 from 12.2(7a) to
12.2(14)S -- 12.2(7a) had a terrible bug with NetFlow, and the reason we
chose 12.2(14)S was that another 7206VXR with NPE-300 run 12.0S without any
problems (12.0S does not support NSE-1, 12.2S does).

NetFlow is working fine now, but something is not going right with SNMP :

There is a Serial PPP interface configured on abovementioned 7206VXR, that
is running OK :
Router#sh int ser4/7:0
Serial4/7:0 is up, line protocol is up
  5 minute input rate 3000 bits/sec, 6 packets/sec
  5 minute output rate 34000 bits/sec, 6 packets/sec

Let's now snmpwalk into router to get status of Se4/7:0 interface :
interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifDescr.X = "Serial4/7:0"
interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifAdminStatus.X = up(1)
interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOperStatus.X = 6

ifOperStatus.X = 6 --- should be up(1), why 6 ?
ftp://ftp.cisco.com/pub/mibs/v2/IF-MIB.my states :
ifOperStatus OBJECT-TYPE
<skip>
notPresent(6),    -- some component is missing
<skip>
it should remain in the notPresent(6) state if the interface has missing
(typically, hardware) components."
But as we have seen before, interface is up and working !

Has anyone seen anything like that ? Is that a bug or a feature ? :-)

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) 7200 Software (C7200-P-M), Version 12.2(14)S, EARLY DEPLOYMENT
RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
cisco 7206VXR (NSE-1) processor (revision A) with 245760K/16384K bytes of
memory.
R7000 CPU at 262Mhz, Implementation 39, Rev 2.1, 256KB L2, 2000KB L3 Cache
6 slot VXR midplane, Version 2.0

Thanks,

WBR, Misha