[nsp] 12.2T vs 12.3

George Stylianou georges at is.co.za
Wed Jul 30 15:58:26 EDT 2003



Slot 0: C7200-I/O-2FE/E
Slot 4: PA-A3-T3
Slot 5: PA-8T-X21

We also have both and havent seen this on any other router - only the
one with the details above.

Packet loss to the router was about 40% while on 12.2(14)S3 and 12.3 due
to the number of input erros/drops/ignores


George



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gert Doering [mailto:gert at greenie.muc.de] 
> Sent: 30 July 2003 14:41
> To: George Stylianou
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [nsp] 12.2T vs 12.3
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 01:00:50PM +0200, George Stylianou wrote:
> > Speaking of 12.2T, 12.2(14)S and 12.3
> > 
> > Anyone had any issues moving from 12.2T to either one of the above?
> > 
> > We tried on a 7206 npe-400 with PA-A3-T3 & PA-8T-X21= and had to 
> > regress to 12.2T
> > 
> > We immediately saw a lot of input errors, ignored packets and input 
> > drops on the FE. I tried switching to the second FE and got 
> the same 
> > result. This was with both 12.2S and 12.3
> 
> Is that an IO-FE or a PA-FE?  We have both running just fine 
> (IO-2FE/E 
> and single PA-FE-TX) with NPE-400s and 12.2(14)S and 12.2(14)S3.
> 
> [..]
> > > 12.2(14)S1 and up have the fix for the input-stuck bug, and have 
> > > been
> > > *extremely* well-behaved for everybody I've spoken to 
> 
> To add a minor detail to all the praise: the "show int" 
> counters still get stuck every now and then on 12.2(14)S*, 
> and need to be restarted with "clear counter <interface>".  
> But that's so common that I didn't even 
> think of it.  The other problem (CT3 counters) affects SNMP 
> and show int, 
> and is much worse.
> 
> gert
> 
> 
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