10Gig storm-control

jamal_ayach · ‎02-24-2010

Our cat6500 (Supervisor Engine 720) started reporting packet drop storm control message in log for it's 10Gig port that is used as an interconnect to the its peers. When you run "show interfaces TenGigabitEthernet 7/2 counters nonzero", the "InBcastPkts" is showing "608825477". That number was 1/2 less 6 hours ago. Our setup is 2 x cat6500 in an active standby setup.

Message in "show log"

%PM_PLATFORM-5-PORTDROP: Port TenGigabitEthernet7/2 dropped packets due to storm control

Surprisingly it returned "Not found" when submitted through the Error Message decoder. Our storm-control is configured at 30.00. We do not have multicast traffic/applications.

How to trace the cause of this ?

/cheers

Giuseppe Larosa · ‎02-25-2010

Hello Jamal,

what is the cpu usage?

sh proc cpu

sh proc cpu history

do you see in log messages any message related to STP activity?

show spanning-tree detail

sh spanning-tree detail | inc last change

can give you the last topology change for each vlan

to complete your information may you post

sh module

sh ver | inc image

this can be helpful in order to perform a bug search if the network is stable.

Hope to help

Giuseppe

jamal_ayach · ‎02-25-2010

Hi Giuseppe,

We have expolored the venues mentionned. We had a monitor session configured on the cat and we're gonna run a tcpdump to catch bcast/mcast traffic.

Thanks for your feedback. Much appreciated.

/ja