[f-nsp] Packet loss on MLXe-4

Aaron Wendel aaron at wholesaleinternet.net
Tue Sep 17 16:32:36 EDT 2013


Not that Brocade is aware of. (I've asked the question to them)

Do you get the same packet loss on other ports on slot 2?  First blush 
would be a bad packet processor.  Do you have a spare you can drop in to 
test?

Aaron



On 9/17/2013 3:17 PM, Frank Bulk wrote:
> We inserted an MLXe-4 into a Brocade ring this morning and it didn't go so
> well.  We saw most IP video traffic (1.3 Gbps) not flow through, and when we
> moved an inter-border router link from eth 1/2 to eth 2/2 we saw significant
> packet loss on other Internet VLANs (all on eth 1/x).  Moving it back
> resolved the issue.
>
> We have two SFMs and have two four-port 10G cards, one is a NI-XMR-10Gx4 and
> the other is a BR-MLX-10Gx4-X.  We also have a BR-MLX-1GCx24-X in slot 3
> that we're not using, yet.  We're running 5.4.0d and the FPGAs are at the
> correct releases.
>
> The ring goes in one 10G port on the one 10G card and through another 10G
> port on the other 10G card.
>
> Are there any compatibility issues between the two cards?  Placement
> requirements?  Any obvious reasons why we experienced all that traffic loss?
>
> Regards,
>
> Frank
>
>
>
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