[f-nsp] Measurement of BigIron virtual interfaces

[Sam Stickland]

Hmm, then it seems we have been, err. missupplied somewhere along the 
line. This card was listed as a J-BxGMR4 when the provisioning request was 
originally made, which ought to make it Jetcore based but evidently this 
isn't one of them.

What would that M4 show up as under a sh ver?

We

Sam

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Jonas Frey wrote:

> Sam,
>
> you have a old M4 based on the ironcore chipset (see my last mail to the
> list), this doesnt support sflow. You can configure it but it will NOT
> work.
>
> A VM1 *does* support sflow.
>
> Regards,
> Jonas
>
>
> On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 18:13, Sam Stickland wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Ray Taft wrote:
>>
>>> No, you can not monitor a VE interface. It will report back zero usage.
>>> Bummer, I know.
>>>
>>> Ray
>>>
>>
>> That is indeed a pain.
>>
>> Does anyone know if the lack of VE interface counters is a hardware
>> problem? Does it change with a VM-1 card installed?
>>
>> I've started looking at how to extract the information from sFlow, but
>> annoyingly I can't even seem to get sFlow exporting working.
>>
>> SSH at foundry1#sh run | inc sflow
>> sflow enable
>> sflow sample 512
>> sflow polling-interval 30
>> sflow destination w.x.y.z
>>
>> SSH at foundry1#conf t
>> SSH at foundry1(config)#int e1/3
>> SSH at foundry1(config-if-e1000-1/3)#sflow forwarding
>> SSH at foundry1(config-if-e1000-1/3)#exit
>> SSH at foundry1(config)#exit
>>
>> SSH at foundry1#sh sflow
>> sFlow services are enabled.
>> sFlow agent IP address: 10.134.221.4
>> Collector IP w.x.y.z, UDP 6343
>> Polling interval is 30 seconds.
>> Configured default sampling rate: 1 per 512 packets.
>> Actual default sampling rate: 1 per 512 packets.
>> 0 UDP packets exported
>> 0 sFlow samples collected.
>> No ports configured for sFlow sampling.
>> Module Sampling Rates
>>
>> SSH at foundry1#sh run int e1/3
>> !Building configuration...
>> !Current configuration : 47 bytes
>> interface ethernet 1/3
>>   port-name Gi0/1 Net1
>> !
>>
>> So basically it's just ignoring the sFlow port configuration. I've read
>> through the Foundry docs and can't seem to figure out why. The interface
>> e1/3 is one of the GE ports on the B4GMR4 card, and the box is running
>> 07.7.01T53 (B2R07701).
>>
>> Feels like I'm missing something very obvious, but I can't see what.
>>
>> Sam
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: foundry-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
>>> [mailto:foundry-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jonas Frey
>>> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 12:07 PM
>>> To: Cliff Fogle
>>> Cc: foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net
>>> Subject: RE: [f-nsp] Measurement of BigIron virtual interfaces
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> please bare in mind: sflow is only supported on the jetiron m4 boards,
>>> not on the (old) ironcore ones.
>>> I dont know about ve monitoring/accounting.
>>>
>>> Btw, i got some foundry equipment to sell...if anyone is interessted:
>>> B2P622-SM-IR
>>> M4R4G (somehow defective, tends to crash when running bgp/using alot of
>>> routes)
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jonas
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 18:57, Cliff Fogle wrote:
>>>> NTOP kind of has sflow support.  It really only gives 'top talkers'
>>>> info.  The best thing out there at this time is really InMon's traffic
>>>> server:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.inmon.com/products/trafficserver.php
>>>>
>>>> (warning:  There is a free demo avaialble and it's addictive)
>>>>
>>>> Foundry is apparently building much better sflow support into INM 1.8,
>>>> but I have yet to see anything other than a PowerPoint mock up of it.
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: foundry-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
>>>> [mailto:foundry-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Sam Stickland
>>>> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 6:47 AM
>>>> To: foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net
>>>> Subject: [f-nsp] Measurement of BigIron virtual interfaces
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to measure the virtual interface bandwidth stats on the
>>>> BigIrons (Mmgt4)? I notice that the interface OID's appear to be
>>>> readable but the counters never seem to increment (running 07.7.01T53)
>>>>
>>>> Can this information be read via SNMP. If not, a cursorsy glance at the
>>>> sFlow specs seems to suggest is it possible to measure this information
>>>> using sFlow. If so are there any opensource or reasonably lightweight
>>>> tools that can process the information in this regard?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Sam
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