[c-nsp] 6500 - What determines whether certain traffic is punted or not?

[Sebastian Wiesinger]

* Drew Weaver <drew.weaver at thenap.com> [2009-11-24 17:34]:
> I've been having some issues with queue drops/CLI sluggishness on a
> 6500 and I wanted to check what kind of volume of traffic I was
> getting punted to the RP.
> 
> I made a span session and began checking out the traffic with
> tethereal.
> 
> It seems like a huge (30,000) or so packets every few seconds of
> just UDP traffic is being punted.

Hi Drew,

can you post a sample from that traffic? Is it mostly the same?

> The system is a Sup720-3BXL.
> 
> Does anyone know how to determine what kind of traffic should be
> punted to the RP and more importantly why this UDP traffic is
> hitting the RP?

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_tech_note09186a00804916e0.shtml#situations

Kind Regards,

Sebastian

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