Cisco Switching/Routing :: 6500 Lose Network Connectivity Every 5-6 Day
Mar 21, 2012
I am running those modules in my Cisco 6500 chassis and having lot of connectivity issues. I lose network connectivity every 5-6 day at around the same time. I have (2) C7000 Chassis with HP VC-Flex 10 Modules connected via 20Gb LAB to each Cisco Cisco 6513 Switches. However, the OA Modules on C7000 are connected via 1Gb uplink to either 6548 and 6148 modules. I beleive this is causing the netwok connectivity issues.What modules would be recommended to replace 6548 and 6148 who only meant to be used for 1Gb desktop connectivity, and not for Server Farm.
When you use either the WS-X6548-GE-TX or WS-X6148-GE-TX modules, there is a possibility that individual port utilization can lead to connectivity problems or packet loss on the surrounding interfaces. Especially when you use EtherChannel and Remote Switched Port Analyzer (RSPAN) in these line cards, you can potentially see the slow response due to packet loss. These line cards are oversubscription cards that are designed to extend gigabit to the desktop and might not be ideal for server farm connectivity. On these modules there is a single 1-Gigabit Ethernet uplink from the port ASIC that supports eight ports. These cards share a 1 Mb buffer between a group of ports (1-8, 9-16, 17-24, 25-32, 33-40, and 41-48) since each block of eight ports is 8:1 oversubscribed. The aggregate throughput of each block of eight ports cannot exceed 1 Gbps. Table 4 in the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series 10/100- & 10/100/1000-Mbps Ethernet Interface Modules shows the different types of Ethernet interface modules and the supported buffer size per port.Over subscription happens due to multiple ports combined into a single Pinnacle ASIC. The Pinnacle ASIC is a direct memory access (DMA) engine that transfers packets between back plane switching bus and the network ports. If any port in this range receives or transmits traffic at a rate that exceeds its bandwidth or utilizes a large amount of buffers to handle bursts of traffic, the other ports in the same range can potentially experience packet loss. The buffer assignment on these modules is documented in Buffers, Queues & Thresholds on Catalyst 6500 Ethernet Modules.A SPAN destination is a very common cause since it is not uncommon to copy traffic from an entire VLAN or multiple ports to a single interface. On a card with individual interface buffers, the packets that exceed the bandwidth of the destination port are silently dropped and no other ports are affected. With a shared buffer, this causes connectivity problems for the other ports on this range. In most scenarios, shared buffers do not result in any problems. Even with eight gigabit attached workstations, it is rare that the provided bandwidth is exceeded.
The switch can experience degradation in services when you configure local SPAN in a switch, especially if it monitors a large amount of source ports.
This problem remains if it monitors certain VLANs and if a large number or ports is assigned to any of these VLANs.Even though SPAN is done in hardware, there is a performance impact since now the switch carries twice as much traffic. Since each linecard replicates the traffic at ingress, whenever a port is monitored, all ingress traffic is doubled when it hits the fabric. The capture of traffic from a large number of busy ports on a linecard can fill up the fabric connection, especially with the WS-6548-GE-TX cards, which only have an 8 Gigabit fabric connection.The WS-X6548-GE-TX, WS-X6548V-GE-TX, WS-X6148-GE-TX, and WS-X6148V-GE-TX modules have a limitation with EtherChannel. For EtherChannel, the data from all links in a bundle goes to the port ASIC, even though the data is destined for another link. This data consumes bandwidth in the 1-Gigabit Ethernet link. For these modules, the sum total of all data on an EtherChannel cannot exceed 1 Gigabit.
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Currently have a setup where we have multiple SVI interfaces in a VRF on a Catalyst 6500 Switch. All these SVI belong to the same VRF. In order to achieve connectivity for hosts within the VRF to access hosts outside the VRF (Hosts reachabe via the Global Routing Table (GRT)) I am thinking I need to configure 2 things
1. Creating a summary route for all the subnets within the VRF in the Global Routing table.
<Config on 6K in Global Routing Table>
Note: 10.10.10.10 is the ip address of loopback 10 and this loopback 10 is in VRF Red
ip route 172.16.0.0 255.255.0.0 loopback10 10.10.10.10
2. Create a couple static routes within the VRF for networks that reside in the Global Routing table but which are not local to this 6K.
<Config on 6K within the VRF Routing Table>
Note: 1.1.1.1 is the ip address of loopback 1 and this loopback 1 is in the GRT or not assigned to a VRF
ip route vrf Red 172.32.32.0 255.255.255.0 loopback1 1.1.1.1 global
ip route vrf Red 172.32.40.0 255.255.255.0 loopback1 1.1.1.1 global
ip route vrf Red 172.32.50.0 255.255.255.0 loopback1 1.1.1.1 global
I have read through some posts and it seems to indicate that I cannot point to a loopback interface as it is not a point to point interface. How this solution can be achieved. The reason I was pointing to a loopback was so that I am not tied to a particular physical interface and for the summary route that was created in step 1 really not sure what L3 interface I could point to since I have multiple SVI's that are in the same VRF. Would I also need to create that same summary within the VRF. I don't intend to since I am assuming that once within the VRF the more specific connected interfaces would take affect and forward respectively.
In addition to the above I also need determining the forwarding behavior when there is a ip helper address configured under the SVI's which are in a VRF but the ip address for that helper is not part of the VRF. I would think if a static route is configured under the VRF for that helper address network pointing it to the Global Routing table it should work. The config for that would be
ip route vrf RED 172.32.52.5 255.255.255.255 loopback1 1.1.1.1 global
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ip access-list extended EACL_DNS
permit udp any eq bootps any
permit udp any eq bootpc any
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action forward
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2. As mentioned its taking quiet some time to negotiate with the DNS server at system boot time.
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sw#conf t
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
swsur(config)#ip routing
[Code]....
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mls qos aggregate-policer INTERNET1 24000000 80000 80000 conform-action transmit exceed-action drop
mls qos aggregate-policer INTERNET2 24000000 80000 80000 conform-action transmit exceed-action drop
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[Code] ....
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SUP2T-D#sh proce cpu hist
11111111111 1111 1111 1111 1111
0000000000099999000099999000099999999990000999900009999999
0000000000099999000099999000099999999990000999900009999999
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0....5....1....1....2....2....3....3....4....4....5....5....
0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5
CPU% per second (last 60 seconds)
SUP2T-D#sh proce cpu sorted
CPU utilization for five seconds: 100%/83%; one minute: 99%; five minutes: 99%
PID Runtime(ms) Invoked uSecs 5Sec 1Min 5Min TTY Process
416 3324188 879928 3777 13.05% 14.42% 14.45% 0 Spanning Tree
633 104408 5091 20508 1.50% 0.53% 0.45% 0 Env Poll
75 22000 298 73825 1.10% 0.13% 0.07% 0 Per-minute Jobs
168 69696 163563 426 0.39% 0.23% 0.22% 0 slcp process
2 532 1010 526 0.07% 0.00% 0.00% 0 Load Meter (code )
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