[c-nsp] PA-2FE-TX in 7206VXR

[Chris Stone]

I just picked up a PA-2FE-TX adapter card for use in a 7206VXR router.
Put it in live and the router saw it and just fine:

ai-core#sh diag 6
Slot 6:
        Fastethernet (TX-ISL) Port adapter, 2 ports
        Port adapter is analyzed
        Port adapter insertion time 3w2d ago
        EEPROM contents at hardware discovery:
        Hardware revision 1.2           Board revision A0
        Serial number     14336327      Part number    73-2618-02
        FRU Part Number:  PA-2FE-TX=, PA-2FEISL-TX=

        Test history      0x0           RMA number     00-00-00
        EEPROM format version 1
        EEPROM contents (hex):
          0x20: 01 6C 01 02 00 DA C1 47 49 0A 3A 02 00 00 00 00
          0x30: 50 00 00 00 99 07 08 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF FF 00

It setup a configuration for it, but it was missing any identifier and
there was only one:

interface
 ip verify unicast reverse-path
 no ip redirects
 no ip unreachables
 no ip proxy-arp
 ip security dedicated unknown
 no ip security add
 ip pim dr-priority 0
 ip pim query-interval 0
 ip route-cache flow
 no ip route-cache cef
 ip dvmrp metric-offset in 0
 no ip dvmrp auto-summary
 ip dvmrp output-report-delay 0 0
 shutdown
 duplex full
 no cdp enable
 no clns checksum
 clns congestion-threshold 0
 clns erpdu-interval 0
 clns mtu 0
 clns rdpdu-interval 0
 no clns route-cache
 no clns send-erpdu
 no clns send-rdpdu

I added:

If I query interface f6/0, it does see accept it, but not the same for
f6/1 (and again, note missing interface identifier and 0's for the MAC
address):

router#sh int f6/0
 is administratively down, line protocol is down
  Hardware is AmdFE, address is 0000.0000.0000 (bia 0000.0000.0000)
  Description: test
  Internet address is 10.10.10.10
  MTU 1500 bytes, BW 100000 Kbit, DLY 100 usec,
     reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
  Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
  Keepalive set (10 sec)
  Full-duplex, Unknown Speed, 100BaseTX/FX
  ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
  Last input never, output never, output hang never
  Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
  Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0
  Queueing strategy: fifo
  Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)
  5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
  5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
     0 packets input, 0 bytes
     Received 0 broadcasts, 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
     0 packets output, 0 bytes, 0 underruns
     0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets
     0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
     0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier
     0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out

router#sh int f6/1
               ^
% Invalid input detected at '^' marker.

The router's info:

router#sh ver
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) 7200 Software (C7200-P-M), Version 12.2(34), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1986-2006 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Thu 02-Mar-06 04:32 by pwade
Image text-base: 0x60008940, data-base: 0x610EA000

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.1(20000824:081033)
[dbeazley-cosmos_e_LATEST 101], DEVELOPMENT SOFTWARE
BOOTLDR: 7200 Software (C7200-BOOT-M), Version 12.0(10)S, EARLY
DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

router uptime is 1 year, 40 weeks, 1 day, 1 hour, 42 minutes
System returned to ROM by power-on
System restarted at 16:06:04 MDT Sat Apr 4 2009
System image file is "slot0:c7200-p-mz.122-34.bin"

cisco 7206VXR (NPE300) processor (revision D) with 229376K/65536K
bytes of memory.
Processor board ID 21294200
R7000 CPU at 262Mhz, Implementation 39, Rev 2.1, 256KB L2, 2048KB L3 Cache
6 slot VXR midplane, Version 2.0

Last reset from power-on
X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.
Bridging software.
Primary Rate ISDN software, Version 1.1.

PCI bus mb0_mb1 (Slots 0, 1, 3 and 5) has a capacity of 600 bandwidth points.
Current configuration on bus mb0_mb1 has a total of 400 bandwidth points.
This configuration is within the PCI bus capacity and is supported.

PCI bus mb2 (Slots 2, 4, 6) has a capacity of 600 bandwidth points.
Current configuration on bus mb2 has a total of 390 bandwidth points
This configuration is within the PCI bus capacity and is supported.

Please refer to the following document "Cisco 7200 Series Port
Adaptor Hardware Configuration Guidelines" on CCO <www.cisco.com>,
for c7200 bandwidth points oversubscription/usage guidelines.


3 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
8 Serial network interface(s)
1 ATM network interface(s)
8 Channelized T1/PRI port(s)
125K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.

20480K bytes of Flash PCMCIA card at slot 0 (Sector size 128K).
4096K bytes of Flash internal SIMM (Sector size 256K).
Configuration register is 0x2102

I have 2 other FastEthernet interfaces in this router as well as an
ATM DS3 - running along without issue - til now with this new
interface card anyway. Total of 4 FastEthernet interfaces - even
though the 'sh ver' above says 3. I have 2 in production use and this
added PA-2FE-TX, for a total of 4.

Anyone seen this behavior before? Tried to get with Cisco on it, but
since all is EOF, they aren't helping.

Any suggestions? Bad interface card maybe?


Chris