[nsp] RSP nightmare

[Bruce Pinsky]

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Gert Doering wrote:

| Hi,
|
| On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 07:54:01PM +0800, Nick Kraal wrote:
|
|>Mar 23 12:03:18.819 MAL: %RSP-3-RESTART: interface FastEthernet1/1/0, not
|>transmitting
|>-Traceback= 403F5160 403FF660 40384884 40384870
|>Mar 23 12:03:18.819 MAL: %CBUS-3-CCBCMDFAIL1: Controller 1, cmd (61
|>0x00000008) failed (0x8010)
|
|
| Nearly every time I did an OIR of a VIP2 board in recent 12.0S IOS releases
| (12.0(26)S), I've seen similar messages.
|
| My interpretation was "it's very easy for the bus to get stuck, and there
| is no way to recover from this besides a hard reset".
|
| "show diag" in this situation shows the controllers as "wedged", and
| nothing I did would revive the boards.
|
| The interesting thing is that earlier 12.0S and 11.1CC releases are not
| *that* picky - my success ratio was much better, and usually only the
| VIP in question crashed, not another, completely unrelated board - seems
| they changed the bus protocol / bus timing quite significantly...
|

It helps if you have SLCR set so that a crash of a single VIP doesn't
require resetting the entire bus.

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bep

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