Cisco N5K-C5010P-BF Troubleshooting Guide - Page 52
Registers and Counters, Identifying drops, Expected/Logical drops
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Registers and Counters Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Layer 2 Switching Issues Send document comments to [email protected]. Registers and Counters Identifying drops There are logical and physical causes for the Nexus 5000 to drop a frame. There are also situations when a frame cannot be dropped because of the cut-through nature of the switch architecture. If a drop is necessary, but the frame is being switched in a cut-through path, then the only option is to stomp the Ethernet frame check sequence (FCS). Stomping a frame involves setting the FCS to a known value that does not pass a CRC check. This causes subsequent CRC checks to fail later in the path for this frame. A downstream store-and-forward device, or a host, will be able to drop this frame. Note When a frame is received on a 10 Gb/s interface, it is considered to be in the cut-through path. The following example output shows all discards and drops seen on a given interface, except for queuing drops. The queuing drops may be expected or resulting from errors. (Drops are more common than discards.) Example: switch# show platform fwm info pif ethernet 1/1 ... Eth1/1 pd: tx stats: bytes 19765995 frames 213263 discard 0 drop 0 Eth1/1 pd: rx stats: bytes 388957 frames 4232 discard 0 drop 126 For some commands, you need to know on which chip your port resides. In the following example, the chip is called Gatos. The example shows which Gatos and which Gatos port is associated with ethernet 1/1. switch# show hardware internal gatos port ethernet 1/1 | include instance|mac gatos instance : 7
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