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n00dles at nix-jutsu

Nov 10, 2009, 8:42 AM

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Re: Cisco 800 stops forwarding layer 3 via switchport

Hello all,

We have a strange issue between PIX 501's running and our 800 series
routers, we are using verious 800s with a spread of IOS versions. The
problem manifests itself as a drop of connectivity between the two
devices, that being we lose layer 3 forwarding out of the switch-port
module on the 800.

We are of the opinion we have ethernet connectivity between devices as
the mac-address table is being populated after being cleared, and
linkstate show up/up but we cannot ping, nor can the device ARP for
the PIX.

Static ARP entrys also no not fix the issue, the only way we have found
so far to fix the problem is to reboot the 800.

Has anyone experienced this kind of problem before?

Regards

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n00dles at nix-jutsu

Nov 12, 2009, 1:12 AM

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Re: Cisco 800 stops forwarding layer 3 via switchport [In reply to]

On Tuesday, 10 November 2009 at K:13:13 -0600, Jesse Alexander wrote:
> I have seen this issue happen with a customer 800 series, and I think there
> were just too many IP's for it to handle. If I remember correctly, they
> were using an 871. In my case, we think it couldn't handle a /22 (I think
> it was a /22, it was a couple of years ago).
Each site of which there a large number(a chain of hotels) each has a
/27, we are currently seeing the issue on 10-15 sites randomly. I'm
doubtful that the kit is unable to handle the load.

> The customer would be fine for a period of time (a few hours or less), then
> would not be able to reach the world until they rebooted it. Because we
> didn't manage the 800, we had no visibility to it, so I cannot tell you
> the specific reason. Because the issue went away after he customer
> upgraded their hardware, we can only assume that the 800 was insufficient
> for their needs.
Our customer wont consider swaping kit out, your experiance sounds more
advanced than ours we are only seeing the issue sporadicly.

>
> -Jesse
>
>
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>
> Hello all,
>
> We have a strange issue between PIX 501's running 6.3(5) and our 800 series
> routers, we are using verious 800s(857/877) with a spread of IOS versions.
> The problem manifests itself as a drop of connectivity between the two
> devices, that being we lose layer 3 forwarding out of the switch-port
> module on the 800.
>
> We are of the opinion we have ethernet connectivity between devices as
> the mac-address table is being populated after being cleared, and
> linkstate show up/up but we cannot ping, nor can the device ARP for
> the PIX.
>
> Static ARP entrys also no not fix the issue, the only way we have found
> so far to fix the problem is to reboot the 800.
>
> Has anyone experienced this kind of problem before?
>
> Regards
>
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n00dles at nix-jutsu

Nov 12, 2009, 1:37 AM

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Re: Cisco 800 stops forwarding layer 3 via switchport [In reply to]

On Wednesday, 11 November 2009 at K:04:55 +0000, Paul Cosgrove wrote:
> Not personally, but I have heard of similar issues which affect old
> versions of the PIX software. Does disabling/enabling or
> disconnecting/reconnecting the interface also resolve the issue?
Sadly not that I'm aware of, the customer "manages" the PIXs involed
which are really only doing NAT from the looks of the config they have
provided.

> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:42 PM, <[1]n00dles [at] nix-jutsu> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> We have a strange issue between PIX 501's running 6.3and our 800 series
> routers, we are using verious 800s(857/877) with a spread of IOS versions.
> The
> problem manifests itself as a drop of connectivity between the two
> devices, that being we lose layer 3 forwarding out of the
> switch-port
> module on the 800.
> We are of the opinion we have ethernet connectivity between devices
> as
> the mac-address table is being populated after being cleared, and
> linkstate show up/up but we cannot ping, nor can the device ARP for
> the PIX.
> Static ARP entrys also no not fix the issue, the only way we have
> found
> so far to fix the problem is to reboot the 800.
> Has anyone experienced this kind of problem before?
> Regards
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