[c-nsp] 6500 Defects Anyone?

[Hank Nussbacher]

At 05:05 PM 25-03-06 -0700, 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!

Haven't had problems with those problems but have had to replace 10 
eFlexwans over the past 6 months in 2 7600s.

-Hank


>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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