[c-nsp] Broken SNMP ifHCInUcastPkts on NPE-G1 GE 12.4(5)

Saku Ytti saku+cisco-nsp at ytti.fi
Fri Nov 4 10:39:42 EST 2005


On (2005-11-04 02:14 +0000), Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> just a heads up, the ifHCInUcastPkts SNMP counters on the (builtin) Gigabit
> ports of a NPE-G1 are horribly broken in 12.4(5):
> 
> IF-MIB::ifHCInUcastPkts.1 = Counter64: 18446741221889117816
> [a minute later]
> IF-MIB::ifHCInUcastPkts.1 = Counter64: 18446741209004421353
> 
> the box is getting around 7kpps on this interface. Happened on two
> NPE-G1 when being upgraded to 12.4(5), other interfaces (PA-4T, PA-8T,
> C7200-I/O-2FE/E on third upgraded box) work fine.
> 
> 12.4(1b) worked fine, 12.4(3a) was unusable because OSPFv2 didn't bother
> to come up at all (nothing in debugging).

 CSCsb95806 fixed in november timeframe according to cisco :>. So I guess
12.4(5) was JUST in time before it got fixed :>
 I wonder why broken 64b counters isn't show stopper for release in
main branch.

> Regards,
> Bernhard
> 
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