<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>If you're sparing a -X with a vanilla non -X (or the other way around), be aware that the chassis reports them as two different cards and you have to blow away the port config for one before inserting the other. We spare both types of 4x10g cards for this reason. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Mike</div><br><div><div>On Sep 17, 2013, at 2:53 PM, "Frank Bulk" <<a href="mailto:frnkblk@iname.com">frnkblk@iname.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">We didn't try other ports. The IP video ingress of the ring was on the new<br>card, eth 2/1, and the inter-border router link was bad when moved to eth<br>2/2.<br><br>That card is the spare, so we can't pop another one in.<br><br>Could we theoretically swap the two cards around, as part of our<br>troubleshooting?<br><br>Frank<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-<a href="mailto:nsp-bounces@puck.nether.net">nsp-bounces@puck.nether.net</a>] On Behalf Of<br>Aaron Wendel<br>Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 3:33 PM<br>To: <a href="mailto:foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net">foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net</a><br>Subject: Re: [f-nsp] Packet loss on MLXe-4<br><br>Not that Brocade is aware of. (I've asked the question to them)<br><br>Do you get the same packet loss on other ports on slot 2? First blush <br>would be a bad packet processor. Do you have a spare you can drop in to <br>test?<br><br>Aaron<br><br><br><br>On 9/17/2013 3:17 PM, Frank Bulk wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">We inserted an MLXe-4 into a Brocade ring this morning and it didn't go so<br>well. We saw most IP video traffic (1.3 Gbps) not flow through, and when<br></blockquote>we<br><blockquote type="cite">moved an inter-border router link from eth 1/2 to eth 2/2 we saw<br></blockquote>significant<br><blockquote type="cite">packet loss on other Internet VLANs (all on eth 1/x). Moving it back<br>resolved the issue.<br><br>We have two SFMs and have two four-port 10G cards, one is a NI-XMR-10Gx4<br></blockquote>and<br><blockquote type="cite">the other is a BR-MLX-10Gx4-X. We also have a BR-MLX-1GCx24-X in slot 3<br>that we're not using, yet. We're running 5.4.0d and the FPGAs are at the<br>correct releases.<br><br>The ring goes in one 10G port on the one 10G card and through another 10G<br>port on the other 10G card.<br><br>Are there any compatibility issues between the two cards? Placement<br>requirements? Any obvious reasons why we experienced all that traffic<br></blockquote>loss?<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Regards,<br><br>Frank<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>foundry-nsp mailing list<br><a href="mailto:foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net">foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net</a><br>http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp<br><br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>foundry-nsp mailing list<br><a href="mailto:foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net">foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net</a><br>http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>foundry-nsp mailing list<br>foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net<br>http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp<br><br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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