RxCBLDrop

brad-denham · ‎10-09-2002

When I perform a show counters on a 10/100 port (Catalyst 5509 WS-X5225R) there is a counter for RxCBLDrop. Can someone explain what information this counter is reporting? I have searched Cisco's web site, and I cannot find any useful information regarding this counter.

Prashanth Krishnappa · ‎10-09-2002

This counter gets incremented if the port is dropping frames because of

a spantree blocked state. Color blocking errors are generated when a

configured port on a switch is seeing frames from a VLAN other than the one

it is configured to support. Usually the "RxCBLDrop" counter gets incremented if the port is dropping frames because of a spantree blocked state for a particular vlan.

Is this port configured as a trunk? Can you post the output of sh spantree x/y

brad-denham · ‎10-09-2002

Here is the spantree output.

TRIBSW1> (enable) sho spantree 4/2

Port Vlan Port-State Cost Priority Fast-Start Group-Method

--------- ---- ------------- ----- -------- ---------- ------------

4/2 149 forwarding 19 32 enabled

TRIBSW1> (enable)

Prashanth Krishnappa · ‎10-09-2002

Does the counter increment? clear counters and monitor. Also what connects to this port and what software version are you running

brad-denham · ‎10-09-2002

The device connected to this port is a G3 iMac. This machine is pulling graphics files from a G4 server and manipulates the data. The counter is only incrementing when the iMac crashes. Here is a sho ver of the switch it is connected to:

TRIBSW1> (enable) sho ver

WS-C5509 Software, Version McpSW: 4.5(2) NmpSW: 4.5(2)

NMP S/W compiled on Jun 26 1999, 09:36:42

MCP S/W compiled on Jun 26 1999, 09:34:41

System Bootstrap Version: 3.1.2

Hardware Version: 1.0 Model: WS-C5509 Serial #: 067514314

Mod Port Model Serial # Versions

--- ---- ---------- --------- ----------------------------------------

1 2 WS-X5530 013357293 Hw : 3.2

Fw : 3.1.2

Fw1: 4.4(1)

Sw : 4.5(2)

3 3 WS-X5403 012942214 Hw : 1.2

Fw : 4.1(1)

Sw : 4.5(2)

4 24 WS-X5225R 013406788 Hw : 3.1

Fw : 4.3(1)

Sw : 4.5(2)

5 24 WS-X5225R 013404716 Hw : 3.1

Fw : 4.3(1)

Sw : 4.5(2)

6 24 WS-X5225R 021817786 Hw : 3.3

Fw : 4.3(1)

Sw : 4.5(2)

DRAM FLASH NVRAM

Module Total Used Free Total Used Free Total Used Free

------ ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ----- ----- -----

1 32640K 14325K 18315K 8192K 4126K 4066K 512K 143K 369K

Uptime is 188 days, 21 hours, 39 minutes

TRIBSW1> (enable)