[c-nsp] Cisco VIP2-50+PA-2FE-TX second ethernet port bug

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:20:04AM -0400, Jon Lewis wrote:
> > > You're experiencing this as well?  Great, it means "I'm not alone".
> > >
> > > I don't have a BugID, unfortunately, as the box in question doesn't
> > > have a Smartnet contract anymore.
> 
> Doesn't a 7500 do a bus reset and memory recarve when a "new interface"
> gets unshut?  If that's where its crashing, have either of you tried
> turning up the second port by loading a config into startup-config that
> has both ports unshut, and then rebooting?

As far as I could see, it crashes only when you put actual traffic load
on the second FE port.  If it's just "no shut" and doing nothing more
than a few CDP and Ethernet loopback packets, it doesn't crash.

Startup a BGP session, run a big ping -> boom.

gert

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