[c-nsp] Cisco 7204 VXR strange behavior

[Rodney Dunn]

No. It's true on any forwarding platform for that specific
command.

I think you might be thinking of 'sh ip cache' and not 'sh ip cache
flow'. The former is for the fastswitching (not CEF) path.
The second is for netflow which is in the CEF path.

 
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shOn Fri, May 26, 2006 at 07:38:28PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Rodney Dunn:
> 
> > On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 07:10:20PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >> * Raymond Macharia:
> >> 
> >> > I did a "sh ip cache flow" and all traffic was being dumped there.
> >> 
> >> IIRC, this simply means that the traffic is passed on to a less
> >> efficient switching method (process switching, likely).  It does not
> >> necessarily mean that the traffic is dropped.
> >
> > That's incorrect. If you see packets in 'sh ip cache flow' that just
> > means you have traffic coming in/out an interface that netflow
> > is configured on. It doesn't mean anything about traffic being
> > punted from one path to the other.
> 
> Thanks for the correction.  Is this a 720x-specific thing?  Maybe I'm
> recalling wrong, but I'm pretty sure that I saw the behavior I alluded
> to.