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2811 freeze

rhopkins_rcps
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Hi, we have a year or 2 old 2811 router as our uplink to the isp. Well 2 times in the past 2 months, this thing seems to fail. All of a sudden there's no traffic passing but it's powered and light up, one day was a heavy traffic day(the inauguration) and a week later it happened on a light traffic day. The first time we contacted our ISP and after about an hour we just rebooted the router and everything was fine. The second time, we tried to console in, and it wouldn't allow it, nothing came up, we disallow vty since its connected to the internet. We rebooted and its been fine since.

So, should I just replace the router? How can I check to see if errors are happening if we can't console in? Is there anything I can check at all?

Thanks in advance

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Joseph W. Doherty
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What IOS version are you running?

c2800nm-ipbase-mz.124-3d

Thanks Joseph

Can't say this will cure your problem, but if you have maintenance, you might try upgrading to a later patch version. Either 12.4.3j or perhaps 12.4.23.

Leo Laohoo
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I agree with the previous post. "we tried to console in, and it wouldn't allow it" sounds like you're hitting a bug (CSCej77191). Consider upgrading the IOS.

Enable syslog and you can see the error messages as it go along.

Without the error messages, I can only find the following bug CSCej77191:

877/871 hangs - console prints %SYS-2-NOTQ: unqueue didnt find 0

Symptoms: Accessing some web pages results in the router appearing to hang.

No IP traffic goes to or from the router. None of the lights flash. The

console continously prints the following message:

%SYS-2-NOTQ: unqueue didn't find 0 in queue 831A65B4

-Process= "", ipl= 2

-Traceback= 0x807CBCBC 0x8008FBD8 0x806D1EB4 0x806D2020 0x8037C200 0x80135030

0x80129B34 0x8012C344 0x8012ED68 0x8034B0A4 0x800D3014 0x800D3014 0x8034B164

0x807F0654 0x807F0590 0x807ED9D4

The router must be power cycled to recover.

Conditions: This symptom has been observed on Cisco IOS Release 12.4T and

Release 12.4(4)T when Dynamic Multipoint VPNs (DMVPN) are being used.

Workaround: Disable bridging.

rhopkins_rcps
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Thanks for the great info Joseph and Leo, I will give upgrading a shot.

rhopkins_rcps
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Just out of curiosity, could this be a cpu or memory utilization issue due to heavy traffic?

Are there any services I could turn off ie http, bootp, password-encrypt, cdp, etc to free up more processor/memory usage?

Thanks again.

Could be anything. Hardware issue, memory, CPU hog. My bet it's a hardware issue.

You have the router running for the last 2 years without rebooting or upgrading the IOS. Then all of the sudden you have to reboot the appliance twice just to get it going.

"Just out of curiosity, could this be a cpu or memory utilization issue due to heavy traffic? "

Yes, although sometimes very hard to detect since when router "freezes" you're unable to see what's happening now. Sometimes monitoring will see the run up to freeze.

Another reason for later code, sometimes it responds better to being stressed.

Hi,

I would like to know if there were any configuration changes recently.

Also let me know if you have static routes if yes, please post the statements.

-> Sushil

Hi, there were no recently changes before the router started slowing. I've attached a recent sh run and cpu output, unfortunately the cpu output is when the router wasn't problematic. I have disabled all the services I could think of.

Also, is there a way I could turn on logging buffered, then have a trigger/threshold to send a message to the log when the cpu or memory reaches a certain point?

Thanks

Something you might change:

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 FastEthernet0/0

ip route 81.175.x.0 255.255.255.0 FastEthernet0/1

Use next hop IP addresses instead of interfaces. This avoids the router ARPing.

I believe it's posssible to use EEM to monitor CPU and generate a log message, but I haven't done so, so I can't provide an example.

Also with regard to disabling services, you might also want to disable console logging.

Also you might issue a show process CPU sorted command to see what's consuming the CPU.

Sir,

I can guarantee you 99% its the issue with your default and static route as pointed above by Joseph.

I have seen at least 4-5 such cases.

Please make the changes as suggested by Joseph and hopefully you'll not run into this issue again.

Good Luck!!!

-> Sushil

rhopkins_rcps
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You guys are the best, thanks for the help.

rhopkins_rcps
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I got the outside route no problem, but I'm running into an issue with the inside route.

The next inside hop is the firewall:

outside int - 81.175.57.3/25

dmz 1 int - 81.175.57.129/26

dmz 2 int - 172.16.129.1/17

Right now theres only one ip route to 81.175.57.0 255.255.255.0 fa0/1

Would I change it to:

ip route 81.175.57.4/25 81.175.57.3

ip route 81.175.57.130/26 81.175.57.129

Thanks again, RT

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