[c-nsp] Missing 'packet-too-big' ICMPs on 12.2(28)SB6

Gerald Krause gk at ax.tc
Tue Sep 11 09:53:54 EDT 2007


Karol Mares wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 9/10/07, Gerald Krause <gk at ax.tc> wrote:
>> Gerald Krause wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a 7206VXR as LNS under 12.2(28)SB6 and wonder if anyone
>>> experience a strange ICMP behaviour regarding fragmentation/MTU
>>> bounderies. It seems that the router doesn't generate appropriate
>>> ICMP messages when pakets arrive that the system can't (or isn't
>>> allow to) fragment.
>>>
>>> The only problem with our config could be the fact that we have
>>> configured a MTU of 1530 byte (because of MPLS) on the FEs. But even
>>> if this could be problematic I would expect that in the case that a
>>> paket arrive which can't be delivered through the VirtualInterfaces
>>> (MTU 1448 byte) the system have to mention that in the logging buffer.
>>> Thats why I have enabled ICMP debugging and related CEF debugging
>>> but I never see 'packet-too-big' ICMP messages, only 'echo' and
>>> 'host/port unreachable' messages are logged. But I See that CEF is
>>> aware of the fact that it can't deliver the packet without
>>> fragmentation:
>>>
>>>
>>> debug:
>>> ======
>>> Generic IP:
>>>   ICMP packet debugging is on
>>> IP CEF:
>>>   IP CEF drops debugging is on
>>>     for access list 80
>>>   IP CEF fragmentation debugging is on
>>>
> 
> 
> Curious, can you show me the show int fa<x> and show ip traffic  command ?

Yep, sure:

#sh int fa0/0
FastEthernet0/0 is up, line protocol is up
  Hardware is DEC21140A, address is 0050.0b3b.5400 (bia 0050.0b3b.5400)
  Description:
  Internet address is x.x.x.x/27
  MTU 1530 bytes, BW 100000 Kbit, DLY 100 usec,
     reliability 255/255, txload 9/255, rxload 21/255
  Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
  Keepalive set (10 sec)
  Full-duplex, 100Mb/s, 100BaseTX/FX
  ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
  Last input 00:00:00, output 00:00:00, output hang never
  Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
  Input queue: 1/75/133/4658 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output
drops: 0
  Queueing strategy: fifo
  Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)
  5 minute input rate 8480000 bits/sec, 2907 packets/sec
  5 minute output rate 3777000 bits/sec, 1939 packets/sec
     2643939396 packets input, 3280004591 bytes, 5 no buffer
     Received 16131045 broadcasts (0 IP multicast)
     0 runts, 0 giants, 138 throttles
     0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
     0 watchdog
     0 input packets with dribble condition detected
     3432839522 packets output, 1002457105 bytes, 0 underruns
     0 output errors, 0 collisions, 1 interface resets
     0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
     1 lost carrier, 0 no carrier
     0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out

#sh int fa4/0
FastEthernet4/0 is up, line protocol is up
  Hardware is DEC21140, address is 0050.0b3b.5470 (bia 0050.0b3b.5470)
  Description:
  Internet address is y.y.y.y/27
  MTU 1530 bytes, BW 100000 Kbit, DLY 100 usec,
     reliability 255/255, txload 13/255, rxload 3/255
  Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
  Keepalive not set
  Full-duplex, 100Mb/s, 100BaseTX/FX
  ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
  Last input 00:00:00, output 00:00:00, output hang never
  Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
  Input queue: 0/75/0/3006 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output
drops: 0
  Queueing strategy: fifo
  Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)
  5 minute input rate 1500000 bits/sec, 368 packets/sec
  5 minute output rate 5187000 bits/sec, 1432 packets/sec
     2845013786 packets input, 2383827726 bytes, 0 no buffer
     Received 15908291 broadcasts (0 IP multicast)
     0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
     0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
     0 watchdog
     0 input packets with dribble condition detected
     1842783025 packets output, 2416455042 bytes, 0 underruns
     0 output errors, 0 collisions, 1 interface resets
     0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
     1 lost carrier, 0 no carrier
     0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out

#sh ip traffic
IP statistics:
  Rcvd:  250484026 total, 159198119 local destination
         1576 format errors, 0 checksum errors, 884039 bad hop count
         4 unknown protocol, 35458 not a gateway
         0 security failures, 0 bad options, 36188 with options
  Opts:  8 end, 0 nop, 0 basic security, 0 loose source route
         0 timestamp, 0 extended security, 8 record route
         0 stream ID, 0 strict source route, 36180 alert, 0 cipso, 0 ump
         0 other
  Frags: 44235703 reassembled, 42 timeouts, 0 couldn't reassemble
         41228174 fragmented, 1072 couldn't fragment
  Bcast: 8313647 received, 0 sent
  Mcast: 29135477 received, 9634176 sent
  Sent:  206325022 generated, 2459945607 forwarded
  Drop:  1677 encapsulation failed, 0 unresolved, 0 no adjacency
         216 no route, 0 unicast RPF, 0 forced drop
         0 options denied, 4 source IP address zero

ICMP statistics:
  Rcvd: 13 format errors, 220 checksum errors, 93697 redirects,
33291 unreachable
        1769784 echo, 6415 echo reply, 0 mask requests, 0 mask
replies, 29 quench
        0 parameter, 0 timestamp, 0 info request, 0 other
        0 irdp solicitations, 0 irdp advertisements
  Sent: 0 redirects, 2399844 unreachable, 6609 echo, 1769783 echo reply
        0 mask requests, 0 mask replies, 0 quench, 0 timestamp
        0 info reply, 819068 time exceeded, 0 parameter problem
        0 irdp solicitations, 0 irdp advertisements

UDP statistics:
  Rcvd: 66735466 total, 9 checksum errors, 3325761 no port
  Sent: 177825189 total, 0 forwarded broadcasts

TCP statistics:
  Rcvd: 25385141 total, 2532 checksum errors, 4059 no port
  Sent: 18698403 total

Probe statistics:
  Rcvd: 0 address requests, 0 address replies
        0 proxy name requests, 0 where-is requests, 0 other
  Sent: 0 address requests, 0 address replies (0 proxy)
        0 proxy name replies, 0 where-is replies

BGP statistics:
  Rcvd: 20697361 total, 11 opens, 0 notifications, 20281798 updates
        415544 keepalives, 8 route-refresh, 0 unrecognized
  Sent: 801874 total, 11 opens, 2 notifications, 15207 updates
        786648 keepalives, 6 route-refresh

OSPF statistics:
  Rcvd: 20774889 total, 0 checksum errors
        13832619 hello, 1109278 database desc, 5 link state req
        3295510 link state updates, 2537453 link state acks

  Sent: 4781925 total
        2307649 hello, 46631 database desc, 8 link state req
        1777298 link state updates, 650641 link state acks

IP-EIGRP statistics:
  Rcvd: 0 total
  Sent: 0 total

PIMv2 statistics: Sent/Received
  Total: 0/0, 0 checksum errors, 0 format errors
  Registers: 0/0 (0 non-rp, 0 non-sm-group), Register Stops: 0/0,
Hellos: 0/0
  Join/Prunes: 0/0, Asserts: 0/0, grafts: 0/0
  Bootstraps: 0/0, Candidate_RP_Advertisements: 0/0
  Queue drops: 0
  State-Refresh: 0/0

IGMP statistics: Sent/Received
  Total: 4/0, Format errors: 0/0, Checksum errors: 0/0
  Host Queries: 0/0, Host Reports: 0/0, Host Leaves: 0/0
  DVMRP: 0/0, PIM: 0/0
  Queue drops: 0

ARP statistics:
  Rcvd: 2651898 requests, 13186 replies, 0 reverse, 0 other
  Sent: 14493 requests, 39548 replies (0 proxy), 0 reverse
  Drop due to input queue full: 0


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Gerald   (ax/tc)


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