[c-nsp] Cat 6500 SUP720 environment problems..

Mr. Tian tianys at gmail.com
Sun Aug 24 21:29:33 EDT 2008


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From: Mr. Tian <tianys at gmail.com>
Date: 2008/8/21
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cat 6500 SUP720 environment problems..
To: John R <fraglet at gmail.com>


 hello.

     I meet the same question. Have you resolved the problem? Thanks!

2007/5/10 John R <fraglet at gmail.com>

 Hello all
>
> We have some questions in relation to our environment, we basically have a
> pair of 6509 chassis with sup720-3b`s connecting to lots ( over 300 ) cisco
> 3020 blade switches, with each 3020 attached to both 6509`s, there are no
> DFC`s on the linecards.
>
> The 6500`s have 8 x Gig-E connections as a portchannel between them
>
> The environment runs unicast and multicast but there is no really high
> traffic levels, we have some questions relating to below, any comments
> would
> be most welcome.
>
>
>        6500 --- 8 gig-e portchannel --- 6500
>        \                                          /
>         \                                        /
>          \      300+ 3020 blades      /
>
>
>
> Cat6509`s are running both running 12.2.18SXF5 -
> ipservicesk9-mz.122-18.SXF5.bin
>
> CAT6KSUP720-3B#sh cat
>  chassis MAC addresses: 1024 addresses from 0018.7433.3400 to
> 0018.7433.37ff
>  traffic meter =   1%   Last cleared at 13:22:27 GMT Thu Nov 9 2006
>           peak =  96%        reached at 01:12:36 BST Thu May 10 2007
>  switching-clock: clock switchover and system reset is allowed
>
> Q - Is this peak only for the shared bus ?
>
>
> ######################################################################################
>
> CAT6KSUP720-3B#sh pla ha cap for
> L2 Forwarding Resources
>           MAC Table usage:   Module  Collisions  Total       Used
> %Used
>                              5                0  65536       2905
>  4%
>
>             VPN CAM usage:                       Total       Used
> %Used
>                                                    512          0
>  0%
> L3 Forwarding Resources
>             FIB TCAM usage:                     Total        Used
> %Used
>                  72 bits (IPv4, MPLS, EoM)     196608        4232
>  2%
>                 144 bits (IP mcast, IPv6)       32768        1483
>  5%
>
>                     detail:      Protocol                    Used
> %Used
>                                  IPv4                        4232
>  2%
>                                  MPLS                           0
>  0%
>                                  EoM                            0
>  0%
>
>                                  IPv6                           2
>  1%
>                                  IPv4 mcast                  1481
>  5%
>                                  IPv6 mcast                     0
>  0%
>
>            Adjacency usage:                     Total        Used
> %Used
>                                               1048576        4194
>  1%
>
>     Forwarding engine load:
>                     Module       pps   peak-pps
> peak-time
>                     5         616391    9068315  15:29:21 GMT Mon Dec 18
> 2006
>
> Q - Is the peak-pps the largest peak seen by the PFC
> Q - If it is, is this not well short of the 30mpps that the box should be
> able to support
>
>
> ######################################################################################
>
> CAT6KSUP720-3B#sh ibc brief
> Interface information:
>        Interface IBC0/0(idb 0x51E4F010)
>        Hardware is Mistral IBC (revision 5)
>        5 minute rx rate 134000 bits/sec, 60 packets/sec
>        5 minute tx rate 76000 bits/sec, 48 packets/sec
>        801981457 packets input, 158150852481 bytes
>        571784929 broadcasts received
>        615169009 packets output, 150564832578 bytes
>        65392127 broadcasts sent
>        1 Inband input packet drops
>        0 Bridge Packet loopback drops
>        50002482 Packets CEF Switched, 118971932 Packets Fast Switched
>        0 Packets SLB Switched, 0 Packets CWAN Switched
>        IBC resets   = 1; last at 14:25:38.107 gmt Sat Oct 28 2006
> MISTRAL ERROR COUNTERS
>        System address timeouts  = 0     BUS errors     = 0
>        IBC Address timeouts     = 0 (addr 0x0)
>        Page CRC errors          = 0     IBL CRC errors = 0
>        ECC Correctable errors   = 0
>        Packets with padding removed (0/0/0)   = 0
>        Packets expanded (0/0)   = 0
>        Packets attempted tail end expansion > 1 page and were dropped = 0
>        IP packets dropped with frag offset of 1 = 0
>        1696 packets (aggregate) dropped on throttled interfaces
>        Hazard Illegal packet length     = 0     Illegal Offset       = 0
>        Hazard Packet underflow          = 0     Packet Overflow      = 0
>        IBL fill hang count              = 0     Unencapsed packets   = 0
>        LBIC RXQ Drop pkt count = 0            LBIC drop pkt count  = 0
>        LBIC Drop pkt stick     = 0
>
> The CEF counter is not clocking in this instance, whereas the fast switch
> counter is, our understanding is that the IBC is the bus between the SP and
> RP?
>
> Q - Why do we see so many fast switches packets
> Q - Should the CEF counter not increment
>
>
>
>
> ######################################################################################
>
> CAT6KSUP720-3B#sh ip mroute count ters
> IP Multicast Statistics
> 730 routes using 681034 bytes of memory
> 21 groups, 33.76 average sources per group
>
> Q - The above is the avergae mcast count for the box, this to us doesn't
> seem high ?
> Q - With lots of multicast boundary commands configured can this add to
> load
> ?
>
>
> ######################################################################################
>
> CAT6KSUP720-3B#      sh mod
> Mod Ports Card Type                              Model              Serial
> No.
> --- ----- -------------------------------------- ------------------
> -----------
>  1   48  CEF720 48 port 1000mb SFP              WS-X6748-SFP
> SAL1025XXXX
>  2   48  CEF720 48 port 1000mb SFP              WS-X6748-SFP
> SAL1026XXXX
>  3   48  CEF720 48 port 1000mb SFP              WS-X6748-SFP
> SAL1026XXXX
>  4   48  CEF720 48 port 1000mb SFP              WS-X6748-SFP
> SAL1026XXXX
>  5    2  Supervisor Engine 720 (Active)         WS-SUP720-3B
> SAL1028XXXX
>  6   48  CEF720 48 port 1000mb SFP              WS-X6748-SFP
> SAL1025XXXX
>  7   48  CEF720 48 port 1000mb SFP              WS-X6748-SFP
> SAL1026XXXX
>  8   48  CEF720 48 port 1000mb SFP              WS-X6748-SFP
> SAL1026XXXX
>  9   48  CEF720 48 port 1000mb SFP              WS-X6748-SFP
> SAL1025XXXX
>
> Q. - Every port on the switch is configured as per the config below, will
> this cause problems ?
> I.E - Is RMON on every port advisable ?
>
>  rmon collection stats 4 owner "root at mgmtstation [1161348691907]"
>  rmon collection history 4 owner "root at mgmtstation [1161348775440]"
> buckets
> 50
>
>
> #####################################################################################
>
> mls aging long 64
> mls aging normal 32
>
> Q. - Should the above setting be changed to default times for long and
> normal flows ?
>
>
> #####################################################################################
>
> Q. - We see large numbers of output drops, but little in the way of traffic
> between the port-channel connecting the two 6ks together - does this match
> the following bug ?
>
> http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/onebug.pl?bugid=CSCdv86024
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