On Tuesday, 10 November 2009 at K:13:13 -0600, Jesse Alexander wrote: > I have seen this issue happen with a customer 800 series, and I think there > were just too many IP's for it to handle. If I remember correctly, they > were using an 871. In my case, we think it couldn't handle a /22 (I think > it was a /22, it was a couple of years ago). Each site of which there a large number(a chain of hotels) each has a /27, we are currently seeing the issue on 10-15 sites randomly. I'm doubtful that the kit is unable to handle the load.
> The customer would be fine for a period of time (a few hours or less), then > would not be able to reach the world until they rebooted it. Because we > didn't manage the 800, we had no visibility to it, so I cannot tell you > the specific reason. Because the issue went away after he customer > upgraded their hardware, we can only assume that the 800 was insufficient > for their needs. Our customer wont consider swaping kit out, your experiance sounds more advanced than ours we are only seeing the issue sporadicly. > > -Jesse > > > -----Original Message----- > From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net > [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of > n00d...@nix-jutsu.net > Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:43 AM > To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net > Cc: netwo...@timico.net > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cisco 800 stops forwarding layer 3 via switchport > > Hello all, > > We have a strange issue between PIX 501's running 6.3(5) and our 800 series > routers, we are using verious 800s(857/877) with a spread of IOS versions. > The problem manifests itself as a drop of connectivity between the two > devices, that being we lose layer 3 forwarding out of the switch-port > module on the 800. > > We are of the opinion we have ethernet connectivity between devices as > the mac-address table is being populated after being cleared, and > linkstate show up/up but we cannot ping, nor can the device ARP for > the PIX. > > Static ARP entrys also no not fix the issue, the only way we have found > so far to fix the problem is to reboot the 800. > > Has anyone experienced this kind of problem before? > > Regards > > -- > _ > Chris Nicholls ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) > Timico Network Operations - against HTML, vCards and X > ch...@timico.net - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > ---end quoted text--- -- _ Chris Nicholls ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Timico Network Operations - against HTML, vCards and X ch...@timico.net - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
