[c-nsp] Catalyst 6500 switchport input drops

[Matt Ryan]

On 24/04/07, Dale W. Carder <dwcarder at doit.wisc.edu> wrote:
>
>
> What's the spanning-tree state of that port (for all vlans
> on that port), DTP, CDP, etc?


Spanning tree state for all VLANs is root port and forwarding. CDP is
disabled. DTP may be the cause but I can't see a specific command on the box
to look at the status (no 'show dtp interface' on a 6500 running IOS and
'show interface trunk' is not helpful)

input queue drops on L2 ports is poorly documented (if at
> all).  I have guessed that they indicate bpdu's being
> thrown away or other such stuff.


That's what I discovered after an afternoon of trawling Cisco's web site and
Goole.


Matt.