Limited on the number of standby groups I can add on an WS-X6K-SUP1A-MSFC

[matt.austin]

I am having problems adding above 16 standby groups on my supervisor engine mentioned above. I have found the link at Cisco: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/473/168.html , and this doesn't provide any help. I have an identical sup. engine that I am having no problems adding additional standby groups to, i.e. above 16. If anyone has any type of recommendations, I will greatly appreciate it...

Thanks You,

Matt A.

Network Engineer

[Prashanth Krishnappa]

What IOS are you running? It's a known issue

http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/bugtool/onebug.pl?bugid=CSCdx32496

[matt.austin]

We are running IOS 12.1.8b.e13... I checked that out also. Both of our supervisor engines are running the same IOS, and the other is fine...

[Prashanth Krishnappa · Accepted solution]

This bug is due to EARL programmed incorrectly and so it is possible that you have EARL programmed incorrectly. Paste the output of "show l3-mgr status" from both the MSFCs. The correct l3_mgr_earl_version for PFC should be 5. If it is 6, you are hitting this issue and you'll need to either upgrade or try the workaround

[matt.austin]

Thanks for your help! Looks like this is the issue...must have been looking in the wrong direction. Could you provide a link as to where you found this information?

[matt.austin]

Don't worry about it, I got the info. I thought the link you left was the same as what I had pasted in my first post....Thanks Again!