[c-nsp] 6500 Defects Anyone?

[Peter Salanki]

Hello mr Murphy,

We have only 3 6509s with a mixture of blades, but they have been up  
for 2 years without ANY problems.
What do you do to your boxes?!?!

/Peter Salanki
Bahnhof AB (AS8473)
Stockholm, Sweden

On Mar 26, 2006, at 1:05 AM, Greg Schwimer wrote:

> I have to wonder if anyone else is having problems with the 6500  
> platform
> like I am.  Speak up if you are!
>
> This last week will provide a good summary into the problems I've been
> having:
>
>    - Fan tray failure, replaced the fan tray to find a 6724 module  
> went
>    bad too.  This is the second fan tray to fail in this one  
> chassis in 9
>    months.
>    - Supervisor720-3bxl started spitting out thousands of memory
>    correction log events.  Replaced this supervisor to find the  
> replacement was
>    bad.
>    - Initiated an SSO failover (3bxl) to find the newly active sup
>    reconfigured the queueing on a 6724 in slot 1 back to what was  
> configured on
>    a blade that had previously in the same slot 6 months prior.   
> Needed to hard
>    reboot to get it to take what the startup config indicated.
>    - Replaced two bad 6748 modules.
>    - CSM crashed 3x in 15 minutes for no apparent reason.  Has run
>    cleanly since with no action taken.
>    - HSRP in standby on spanning-tree root, but the mac forwarding  
> table
>    still forwards packets destined to the HSRP address (active on  
> the other
>    router) to the RP on the standby, causing lots of packet loss.
>
> ...and that was just *this* week.  All of this took place in about  
> 16 6500s,
> all Sup720-3b or better, running 12.2(18)SXE4 in two different  
> facilities.
> CSM code is 4.2(3), which was recommended to us by Cisco DEs after a
> comprehensive review of other CSM problems we'd been having.
>
> Am I just having really bad luck?
>
> -gs
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