[f-nsp] Rconsole and MLX

[Niels Bakker]

* dave at terabitsystems.com (Dave Peters) [Tue 22 Mar 2011, 17:18 CET]:
>I've had a little trouble with traffic on a 10 gig port from an 
>NI-MLX, and I'm hearing about some rconsole commands that can help 
>me get to the bottom of things (I hope).  Unfortunately, I'm not 
>finding a lot of information on the Brocade site.

Yeah, the levels at which "a little trouble with traffic" can be 
debugged in a switch quickly goes from easy commands to 
deep-down-in-the-inner-tubings of the switch fabric modules.  The 
latter requires knowledge that only developers at Brocade have (like 
what registers in the FAPs serve what purpose; only in proprietary 
documentation about the chips used).

It'd help tremendously if you could be a *little* bit more specific in 
describing your problem.  You don't mention whether you have a 4 or an 
8 port 10G module, what software release you're running, what exactly 
you are seeing in practice, what steps you have undertaken to 
reproduce the problem, etc.

Are TM counters in "sh int" congruent with NP counters?  Are you 
seeing errors on SFM links?  Any oldest discards in "sh tm stat"?

If you're not running 5.0.00e you probably should upgrade to that first.


	-- Niels.

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