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cisco 800 MPLS problem

khalid.meraj
Level 1
Level 1

We have been experiencing speed issues to our MPLS from our office for some time, we had a similar problem last September which meant our MPLS from our office was unusable, at that time we switched off the Cisco 800 router and the MPLS was fine, switched it back on and it was ok.

At the end of last week the response on the MPLS was unusable again and we have been receiving complaints from the users. We checked out the MPLS and that was fine, rebooted the router but that did not improve the situation.

switch off the Cisco Router, we had some ping tests running which had been failing badly, as soon as we switched off the Cisco the pings were returned perfectly. We left the router off for 10 mins and then switched the router back on; the responses for now appear to be fine.

However, there is obviously a problem with the Cisco 800 router which is causing excessive next work trouble on the office network and seems to be flooding our WatchGuard and the Global Crossing router (MPLS/Internet) which is not acceptable. This appears to build up over a period of time.

Our MPLs bandwidth is 2MBPS and we have 15 users. can someone help me to resolve this issue urgently?

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Giuseppe Larosa
Hall of Fame
Hall of Fame

Hello Khalid,

sorry for late reply

however, without seeing the C800 configuration is not possible to say anything meaningful.

remove username/pwd change public ip addresses for safey and post it in the forum

there may be some resource that is filled up in the router over time (memory or ARP table or NAT and so on)

it might be a SW defect causing memory leakage it is not possible to say more without details.

Hope to help

Giuseppe


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Hello Khalid,

your configuration looks like fine.

you are using static routes with IP next-hops and this is good because it minimizes ARP activity and ARP table size.

There is no NAT or other features that could load the device over time.

IP CEF is enabled

I would do the following:

post a sh ver | inc image to help in a bug search

monitor over time cpu and memory usage with:

sh proc cpu | inc util

sh proc mem | inc Free

takes this every half an hour (making a script could be handly or using SNMP MIB with a MIB browser)

if you see overtime Free memory reducing the device is probably affected by a SW defect causing memory leakage.

you can get cpu usage trend with

sh proc cpu history

details of what processes are using the most resources can be seen with

sh proc cpu sorted 1min

sh proc mem sorted (to be checked)

Also looking at log messages may be of help if you see any traceback message or spurious access to memory could be sign of a SW defect.

you can check log locally with

sh log

it may be wise to increase logging buffer size using

conf t

logging buffer 100000

I would suggest if possible to configure the router to send log messages to a syslog server

Hope to help

Giuseppe

I updated the router IOS to 15.0 last week but it didn't resolve the issue. Still have to restart the router when lots of packet start droping and then after the restart it start working fine and then after one or two days it drags it self to same possion and then we have to restart the router to fix the issue anyother solution for this ????????

Leo Laohoo
Hall of Fame
Hall of Fame

Wait a minute ... if you have a 2Mbps MPLS link where's your traffic shaping statements?  Maybe it's "slow" because the provider keeps dropping excess and the site keeps on re-transmitting.

IOS already updated and it didn't resolve the issue can you tell me how to check this MPLS bit you are talking about as I am

not cisco expert. But keep in mind it didn't work after a quick reboot have to switch it off for

5 to 10 minute to bring it to life any Idea and if I have to check the memory leak then

how I be able to do it?

Just noticed you are conducting duplicate threads.

Please avoid so.

Jarleif Vaagen
Level 1
Level 1

HI,

Did you verify that your issue isn't founded in Gratuitous ARP? Where does the Firebox fit in in the network?

Are you running routed or drop-in mode on your watchguard appliance?

Thanks!

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