How do I "reset to zero" the counters in Show IP Traffic on 6509?

[cybrsage]

I want to clear the counters shown when I use the command show ip counters. There is not a clear ip counters command. Clear counters does not clear these either.

I do not have a "clear ip counters" command:

6509#clear ip traffic

^

% Invalid input detected at '^' marker.

(Note, the ^ appears under the "r" in traffic)

Specifically, I have a LOT of "not a gateway" errors, I want to see if they are ancient or new.

I also want to know what "not a gateway" means.

[Richard Burts]

Michael

What code are you running on your 6509? On my 6509 there is a clear ip traffic (running 12.2(18)SXF7).

I can approximate your symptoms if I attempt to clear the counters while not in privilege mode. The prompt in your post looks like privilege mode but can we verify what privilege level you are at (post the output of show privilege).

HTH

Rick

[Richard Burts · Accepted solution]

Michael

According to the command reference the not a gateway counts non-routed packets that were encountered.

HTH

Rick

[cybrsage]

Do you have a link to the command reference?

[cybrsage]

Found it. I had read two different command references, which only showed a small subset of the items (which is stupid). I finally found one which shows far more:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_2/ipaddr/command/reference/1rfip2.html#wp1020634

"not a gateway Non-routed packet."

So basically, the switch routing process did not know where to send it, so it sent it out the gateway of last resort.

Thanks!

[cybrsage]

Current privilege level is 15

System image file is "disk0:s72033-pk9s-mz.122-18.SXD5.bin"

So close to your IOS level...but so far...

[Richard Burts]

Michael

I did not realize that the clear ip traffic was such a new addition. Apparently it is.

HTH

Rick