Jo Rhett wrote:
That's the surprising thing -- no scenario. Very basic configuration. Enabling uRPF and then hitting it with a few gig of non-routable packets consistently caused the sup module to stop talking on the console, and various other problems to persist throughout the unit, ie no arp response. We were able to simulate this with two 2 pc's direction connected to a 6500 in a lab. If I remember right, we had to enable CEF to see the problem, but since CEF is a kitchen sink that dozens of other features require you simply couldn't disable it.
Definately sounds like it could be a problem - I'd like to try and replicate this. What do you mean by non-routable traffic - traffic whose destination has no route (I assume you are running defaultless), or traffic that fails the uRPF check? And correct me if I'm wrong but I thought you can't disable CEF on the 6500 platform? hs-6513-1#conf t Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. hs-6513-1(config)#no ip cef % Incomplete command. hs-6513-1(config)#no ip cef ? accounting Enable CEF accounting distributed Distributed Cisco Express Forwarding event-log CEF event log commands interface CEF linecard commands linecard CEF linecard commands load-sharing Load sharing nsf Set CEF non-stop forwarding (NSF) characteristics table Set CEF forwarding table characteristics traffic-statistics Enable collection of traffic statistics hs-6513-1(config)#no ip cef distributed %Cannot disable CEF on this platform hs-6513-1(config)#exit hs-6513-1#sh version | inc IOS IOS (tm) s72033_rp Software (s72033_rp-ADVENTERPRISEK9_WAN-M), Version 12.2(18)SXF11, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Sam