[c-nsp] PA-2FE-TX using both ports kills module

Nikolai Schupbach nikolai at net24.co.nz
Tue Sep 27 17:43:18 EDT 2005


If you have a faulty card the problem is easy to reproduce, and the 
config can be completely empty. Simply configure both ports with an IP 
address and send a few thousand 1000 byte pings to end stations 
simultaneously, over both ports and it should crash pretty much straight 
away :)

Rodney Dunn wrote:

>Ok...maybe there is something I missed with the hw rev
>the first time. I will try again. Let me see if I
>can find a matching one in the lab.
>
>Rodney
>
>On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 10:19:55PM +0400, FreeLSD wrote:
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>>On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 08:34:49AM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
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>>>On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 10:22:28AM +1200, Nikolai Schupbach wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>Does it work if you run port 1 as "single port"?  Or only "port 0"?
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>It works fine if I use either port, as long as I don't use both ports 
>>>>simultaneously.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Interesting.  This is not exactly the same problem we've been observing,
>>>but then, I've only done limited testing in the 7200s - mainly 7500/VIP2.
>>>      
>>>
>>I've done testing JAE* cards behaviour for 7206VXR (2 NPE-400) and 
>>7500 (VIP4-80, VIP2-40) 
>>
>>-- in 7200 card do fail if you run both port simultaneously.
>>-- in 7500 card work right for port 0 and do fail with port 1.
>>
>>so we talk about the same cards :)
>>
>>
>>summary of "broken" cards
>>
>>fingerprint:
>>  PA-2FE-TX 
>>  HW rev 1.00 
>>  Board revision B0
>>  Serial number: JAExxxxxxxx 
>>
>>5 cards tested by 3 people (2 - /me, 2 - Gert, 1 - Nikolai)
>>in 7 (or more) different 7500/7200 routers 
>>with different version IOS (12.0*S, 12.2*S)
>>
>>any vote from cisco? ;)
>>
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