[j-nsp] fabric drops ?

[Jerome Fleury]

Hi,

does anyone know what fabric drops are ? (see last line)

we have this counter increasing on all of our routers, but one of them has much more than the
others.

Can someone point me on the exact definition of this ? Thanks.

jfl at RE0.BB1.COU> show pfe statistics traffic
PFE Traffic statistics:
        7887025183350 packets input  (1505803 packets/sec)
        7861203968641 packets output (1492453 packets/sec)

PFE Local Traffic statistics:
  675057223 local packets input
  675182639 local packets output
          0 software input high drops
        187 software input medium drops
          0 software input low drops
          0 software output drops
  393287161 hardware input drops

PFE Local Protocol statistics:
          0 hdlc keepalives
          0 atm oam
          0 fr lmi
   11617138 ppp lcp/ncp
    5507027 ospf hello
    3656359 rsvp hello
   19263171 isis iih

PFE Hardware Discard statistics:
          0 timeout
          0 truncated key
          0 bits to test
          0 data error
          0 stack underflow
          0 stack overflow
 4180034742 normal discard
          0 extended discard
      22104 invalid iif
          0 info cell drops
   61875452 fabric drops


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Jerome Fleury