[f-nsp] Packet loss on MLXe-4

[Aaron Wendel]

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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