I have a client who experienced this as well on a pair of 7206VXR's. The two routers rebooted themselves due to memory parity error. The "cosmic radiation" was kind enough to cause the reload in the wee hours so no harm done.
What's weird is that we have six 7206's in the same cabinet but only two experienced the problem. The two afflicted routers just happened to service the same group of subnets (HSRP peers)...kinda strange. TAC dude wanted me to remove and re-seat the memory in the routers. He said that if the problem happened again that they'd replace the memory. I opened up one of the routers to find that the memory is not only secured by retaining clips on each side but it also has a screw through it...I didn't bother on the other router. (knocking on wood) It has been several months since that happened and we've run clean since. If you're seeing this on a brand-new box, I'd guess infant mortality. Perhaps you can convince TAC to send you some new memory if you're still fighting this problem. If new memory still has the problem then you'll need to look at "environmental" conditions in your data center - e.g. grounding, heat, a lot of EMI, etc. ""Farooq Ali"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hi all: > > I am a giga-lurker on this list and over the past 3 years have benefitted a > lot. Have been able to achieve a lot due to the knowledge shared on this > list. I would like to thank all for that. > > The reason I am writing now is an issue which is a bit mind boggeling. We do > have a solution but I found it a bit funny hence sharing it here. > > One of our offsite routers a 7206 vxr in New York site was having a problem, > we had this brand new router crash on us twice in a week and after opening a > ticket with TAC, we sent them an upload of our "sh tech" output. > > They told us that we have parity issues and guess what? the parity is bad > cause of "Cosmic radiation"! > I am taking the solution on face value and not making a fuss about it, but > wanted to hear from the more experianced folks on this list on how does > minimal radiation is able to set the 0 to 1 or viceversa, while my router is > not located in say Alpha quadrant in subnebular terrain. Its in NYC! :) > > here is a link to this phenomena on cisco site: > http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:xbNsvjHnXUIC:www.cisco.com/warp/pub lic/ 122/crashes_pmpe.html+soft+parity+errors+and+cosmic+radiation&hl=en > > > > Any ideas! > Kfali CCNP security, afraid of the written. > -- > _______________________________________________ > Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Email.com > http://www.email.com/?sr=signup Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=46397&t=46282 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
