[c-nsp] RES: SXI3 strange issue, Loose mode uRPF jumps to strict by itself

[Leonardo Gama Souza]

Hi,

This is a well known limitation of 6500/7600 platform.
You cannot use strict and loose mode at same time.
Upon a URPF mode change on a given interface, all interfaces change as
well.
 


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De: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] Em nome de bas
Enviada em: quinta-feira, 29 de julho de 2010 16:22
Para: Cisco
Assunto: [c-nsp] SXI3 strange issue,Loose mode uRPF jumps to strict by
itself

Hi All,

Yesterday we had a strange issue.
Our monitoring tool alerted that one of our boxes (SUP720-3BXL - 6506
running SXI3) became unreachable.

When we logged in everything looked ok.
BGP was up, OSPF was up and nothing special in logging.
Still traffic had dropped to near zero.

With "debug ip cef drop" we immediately saw that traffic was dropped
due to uRPF feature.
All upstream interfaces had strict mode uRPF configured, before the
problems started it was loose mode uRPF.

After manually changing them back too loose mode traffic was restored.

A couple of minutes before the problems started an engineer had
configured a customer facing interface with strict mode uRPF.
Apparently this configuration changed triggered a bug that caused
upstream interface loose mode to be automagically turned to strict
mode.

So, hereby a heads up. If your SXI3 boxes show strange behavior,
quickly check uRPF.

Cya,

Bas
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