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  • 1.  ports disabling on 4200 after enabling storm-control and stp

    Posted 02-24-2015 11:21

    We have ex 4200 virtual chassis that had issues over the weekend with 2 of the line cards getting disabled and disconnected from the VC, supposedly in part due to a bad gbic for the fiber uplink and possibly either a storm or loop on the network.   We enabled storm control and stp and we have 1 line card that has had ports being disabled one by one over the past couple days.   These ports have been traced back to printers, wifi AP's and workstations.   Even after clearing the errros on the ports and even disconnecting the ports from the end device, moving that device to another switch port on a different line card, the original port is not clearing.    I currently have a laptop hooked up directly to one of the ports trying to diagnose.    I can take this same laptop/cable and connect into a different port on a different switch and the link comes up fine.  But on these ports on this particular switch, once they go down we cannot get them back up.  I've include the interface details of one of the ports.

     

     

    {master:3}
    root@ex4200vc.lwr> show interfaces ge-1/0/2 media detail | no-more
    Physical interface: ge-1/0/2, Enabled, Physical link is Down
      Interface index: 323, SNMP ifIndex: 872, Generation: 1334
      Description: Printer-7
      Link-level type: Ethernet, MTU: 1514, Speed: Auto, Duplex: Auto, BPDU Error: None,
      MAC-REWRITE Error: None, Loopback: Disabled, Source filtering: Disabled, Flow control: Enabled,
      Auto-negotiation: Enabled, Remote fault: Online, Media type: Copper
      Device flags   : Present Running Down
      Interface flags: Hardware-Down SNMP-Traps Internal: 0x0
      Link flags     : None
      CoS queues     : 8 supported, 8 maximum usable queues
      Hold-times     : Up 0 ms, Down 0 ms
      Current address: 64:64:9b:11:cf:85, Hardware address: 64:64:9b:11:cf:85
      Last flapped   : 2014-03-14 23:22:26 EDT (1d 05:25 ago)
      Statistics last cleared: Never
      Traffic statistics:
       Input  bytes  :               349815                 7240 bps
       Output bytes  :              1349353                 8624 bps
       Input  packets:                 2075                    6 pps
       Output packets:                18277                    9 pps
       IPv6 transit statistics:
        Input  bytes  :                   0
        Output bytes  :                   0
        Input  packets:                   0
        Output packets:                   0
      Egress queues: 8 supported, 4 in use
      Queue counters:       Queued packets  Transmitted packets      Dropped packets
        0 be-class                       0               934033                    0
        1 af-class                       0                    0                    0
        5 ef-class                       0                    0                    0
        7 nc-class                       0                75045                    0
      Queue number:         Mapped forwarding classes
        0                   be-class
        1                   af-class
        5                   ef-class
        7                   nc-class
      Active alarms  : LINK
      Active defects : LINK
      MAC statistics:                      Receive         Transmit
        Total octets                        349815          1349353
        Total packets                         2075            18277
        Unicast packets                       1542             1531
        Broadcast packets                      502            13573
        Multicast packets                       31             3173
        CRC/Align errors                         0                0
        FIFO errors                              0                0
        MAC control frames                       0                0
        MAC pause frames                         0                0
        Oversized frames                         0
        Jabber frames                            0
        Fragment frames                          0
        Code violations                          0
      Autonegotiation information:
        Negotiation status: Complete
        Link partner:
            Link mode: Full-duplex, Flow control: None, Remote fault: OK, Link partner Speed: 1000 Mbps
        Local resolution:
            Flow control: Symmetric, Remote fault: Link OK
      Packet Forwarding Engine configuration:
        Destination slot: 1
      CoS information:
        Direction : Output
        CoS transmit queue               Bandwidth               Buffer Priority   Limit
                                  %            bps     %           usec
        0 be-class               95      950000000    95              0      low    none
        7 nc-class                5       50000000     5              0      low    none
      Interface transmit statistics: Disabled

      Logical interface ge-1/0/2.0 (Index 284) (SNMP ifIndex 873) (Generation 1357)
        Flags: Device-Down SNMP-Traps 0x0 Encapsulation: ENET2
        Traffic statistics:
         Input  bytes  :               130236
         Output bytes  :              8495784
         Input  packets:                 2168
         Output packets:                75035
        Local statistics:
         Input  bytes  :               130236
         Output bytes  :              8495784
         Input  packets:                 2168
         Output packets:                75035
        Transit statistics:
         Input  bytes  :                    0                    0 bps
         Output bytes  :                    0                    0 bps
         Input  packets:                    0                    0 pps
         Output packets:                    0                    0 pps
        Protocol eth-switch, Generation: 1400, Route table: 0
          Flags: None

    {master:3}



  • 2.  RE: ports disabling on 4200 after enabling storm-control and stp

     
    Posted 02-25-2015 02:28

    Although the port is down, I see some activity on the port:

     

       Input  bytes  :               349815                 7240 bps
       Output bytes  :              1349353                 8624 bps
       Input  packets:                 2075                    6 pps
       Output packets:                18277                    9 pps

    This is an intrusive action, but did you reboot the FPC?

     

    What do you see in the logs just before the port goes down? Try to disable/enable that port and see if it's recovering.

     

     


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  • 3.  RE: ports disabling on 4200 after enabling storm-control and stp

    Posted 02-25-2015 09:36

    Yes, some of the disabled ports are showing traffic - but no link and no authentication.   Other's are down with no traffic.  

     

    Just a snippet of the ports on one of the VC line cards is below.  But I found this issue is extending to the ex3200 that are in the site but not in the VC.  I have tried disable/enable the port  (I'm working with ge-1/0/2 that I have a laptop connected to).  I have tried changing vlan and switching between trunked/access port.  No luck with any of that.  I can take that same laptop that is currently in 1/0/2 and plug it into another port that isn't down (1/0/9 or other) and connectivity happens with no issues.

     

    ge-1/0/0.0   down   vlan13              13    untagged blocked by STP
    ge-1/0/1.0   up     vlan13              13    untagged unblocked
    ge-1/0/2.0   down   vlan11              11    tagged   blocked by STP
    ge-1/0/3.0   down   vlan13              13    untagged blocked by STP
    ge-1/0/4.0   up     vlan13              13    untagged unblocked
    ge-1/0/5.0   down   vlan13              13    untagged blocked by STP
    ge-1/0/6.0   up     vlan13              13    untagged unblocked
    ge-1/0/7.0   down   vlan13              13    untagged blocked by STP
    ge-1/0/8.0   down   vlan13              13    untagged blocked by STP
    ge-1/0/9.0   up     vlan10              10    untagged unblocked
                        vlan10              10    tagged   unblocked
                        vlan11              11    tagged   unblocked
                        vlan231             231   tagged   unblocked
                        vlan31              31    tagged   unblocked
                        vlan37              37    tagged   unblocked
                        vlan80              80    tagged   unblocked
                        vlan99              99    tagged   unblocked
    ge-1/0/10.0  down   vlan11              11    untagged blocked by STP
                        vlan21              21    tagged   blocked by STP



  • 4.  RE: ports disabling on 4200 after enabling storm-control and stp
    Best Answer

    Posted 02-25-2015 11:02

    The ports are not blocked by the storm control as shown in the output. They are blocked by spaning tree to prevent a loop. To see if storm control or mac-limiting is causing any issue, run theicommand:

    show ethernet-switching interface