Solved: Cisco PA-GE 7206VXR 7204VXR Gigabit Ethernet Module

Andrew Schulz · ‎07-12-2011

I have a 7204VXR and I purchased two Cisco PA-GE 7206VXR 7204VXR Gigabit Ethernet Module. I plugged them in but I am not seeing them as an interface (show ip interface brief). It doesn't appear that they are being recognized or powering on. Do I need to enable these in config?

Thanks

Giuseppe Larosa · ‎07-13-2011

Hello Andrew,

your router has an NPE 225 with already 3 PA FE.

also the document we are looking provides a table for NPE-225 and the PA-GE is not listed there

So I'm afraid you would need a better NPE

Hope to help

Giuseppe

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Leo Laohoo · ‎07-12-2011

Maybe you've exceeded the allowed Bandwidth Points?

Cisco 7200 Bandwidth Points

Giuseppe Larosa · ‎07-13-2011

Hello Andrew,

post a show c7200

depending on the NPE model, and if there is an I/O controller the use of PA-GE is possible.

It might be possible that NPE-G1 and NPE-G2 that have built-in GE ports and that can work without the I/O controller (they include one on the board) do not support PA GE.

this is my guess on a C7200 with NPE-G1 or NPE-G2 you should use only the built in GE ports, a PA GE would have worse performance going on the bus(es) as explained in the link provided by Leo

Hope to help

Giuseppe

Andrew Schulz · ‎07-13-2011

Thanks for the help. Here is the show c7200...

Also, I found on the the following link this... I agree with leo that I may have exceeded the bandwidth points.

What are my options?

1-port full-duplex Gigabit Ethernet

PA-GE

Not supported

400

0.24 MB

—

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/routers/7200/configuration/7200_port_adapter_config_guidelines/3875In.html#wp1100537

core#sh c7200

Network IO Interrupt Throttling:

throttle count=0, timer count=0

active=0, configured=0

netint usec=3999, netint mask usec=200

Midplane EEPROM:

Hardware revision 2.11 Board revision A0

Serial number 34124007 Part number 73-3905-11

Test history 0x0 RMA number 00-00-00

MAC Pool Size 1024 MAC Addr Base 0016.c86a.d400

Chassis Model 0x4

EEPROM format version 1

EEPROM contents (hex):

0x00: 01 04 02 0B 02 08 B0 E7 49 0F 41 0B 00 16 C8 6A

0x10: D4 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 05 10 20 50 00 00 FF 00

0x20: 00 00 00 00 63 79 08 2C 63 55 00 00 60 7B C2 80

0x30: 63 72 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 63 79 08 2C

C7204VXR CPU EEPROM:

Hardware revision 1.8 Board revision A0

Serial number 34275524 Part number 73-3453-09

Test history 0x0 RMA number 00-00-00

EEPROM format version 1

EEPROM contents (hex):

0x00: 01 C2 01 08 02 0B 00 C4 49 0D 7D 09 00 00 00 00

0x10: 50 00 00 00 05 12 15 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF

C7204VXR PE EEPROM:

Hardware revision 1.2 Board revision E0

Serial number 34275735 Part number 73-4043-02

Test history 0x0 RMA number 00-00-00

EEPROM format version 1

EEPROM contents (hex):

0x00: 01 D5 01 02 02 0B 01 97 49 0F CB 02 00 00 00 00

0x10: 70 00 00 00 05 12 14 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF

TLB entries (38/48 used):

Virt Address range Phy Address range Attributes

0x4B000000:0x4B1FFFFF 0x14B000000:0x14B1FFFFF CacheMode=2, RW, Invalid

0x4B200000:0x4B3FFFFF 0x14B200000:0x14B3FFFFF CacheMode=2, RW, Invalid

0x10000000:0x10001FFF 0x100000000:0x100001FFF CacheMode=2, RW, Valid

0x40000000:0x41FFFFFF 0x040000000:0x041FFFFFF CacheMode=2, RW, Valid

0x44000000:0x45FFFFFF 0x044000000:0x045FFFFFF CacheMode=2, RW, Valid

0x3C000000:0x3C7FFFFF 0x048000000:0x0487FFFFF CacheMode=2, RW, Valid

0x3C800000:0x3CFFFFFF 0x01F000000:0x01F7FFFFF CacheMode=2, RW, Invalid

0x3D000000:0x3D7FFFFF 0x04D000000:0x04D7FFFFF CacheMode=2, RW, Valid

0x3D800000:0x3DFFFFFF 0x01F000000:0x01F7FFFFF CacheMode=2, RW, Invalid

0x3E000000:0x3E7FFFFF 0x04D800000:0x04DFFFFFF CacheMode=2, RW, Valid

0x3E800000:0x3EFFFFFF 0x049800000:0x049FFFFFF CacheMode=2, RW, Invalid

0x3F000000:0x3F7FFFFF 0x04E000000:0x04E7FFFFF CacheMode=2, RW, Invalid

0x1FC00000:0x1FC7FFFF 0x01FC00000:0x01FC7FFFF CacheMode=2, RO, Valid

0x1E000000:0x1E1FFFFF 0x01E000000:0x01E1FFFFF CacheMode=2, RW, Valid

0x1E800000:0x1E9FFFFF 0x01E800000:0x01E9FFFFF CacheMode=2, RW, Valid

0x60000000:0x61FFFFFF 0x000000000:0x001FFFFFF CacheMode=3, RO, Valid

0x62000000:0x6201FFFF 0x002000000:0x00201FFFF CacheMode=3, RO, Valid

0x62020000:0x6203FFFF 0x002020000:0x00203FFFF CacheMode=3, RO, Valid

0x62040000:0x6205FFFF 0x002040000:0x00205FFFF CacheMode=3, RO, Valid

0x62060000:0x62067FFF 0x002060000:0x002067FFF CacheMode=3, RO, Valid

0x62068000:0x6206FFFF 0x002068000:0x00206FFFF CacheMode=3, RO, Valid

0x62070000:0x62077FFF 0x002070000:0x002077FFF CacheMode=3, RW, Valid

0x62078000:0x6207FFFF 0x002078000:0x00207FFFF CacheMode=3, RW, Valid

0x62080000:0x620FFFFF 0x002080000:0x0020FFFFF CacheMode=3, RW, Valid

0x62100000:0x6217FFFF 0x002100000:0x00217FFFF CacheMode=3, RW, Valid

0x62180000:0x621FFFFF 0x002180000:0x0021FFFFF CacheMode=3, RW, Valid

0x62200000:0x623FFFFF 0x002200000:0x0023FFFFF CacheMode=3, RW, Valid

0x62400000:0x625FFFFF 0x002400000:0x0025FFFFF CacheMode=3, RW, Valid

0x62600000:0x627FFFFF 0x002600000:0x0027FFFFF CacheMode=3, RW, Valid

0x62800000:0x62FFFFFF 0x002800000:0x002FFFFFF CacheMode=3, RW, Valid

0x63000000:0x637FFFFF 0x003000000:0x0037FFFFF CacheMode=3, RW, Valid

0x63800000:0x63FFFFFF 0x003800000:0x003FFFFFF CacheMode=3, RW, Valid

0x64000000:0x65FFFFFF 0x004000000:0x005FFFFFF CacheMode=3, RW, Valid

0x66000000:0x67FFFFFF 0x006000000:0x007FFFFFF CacheMode=3, RW, Valid

0x07000000:0x077FFFFF 0x007000000:0x0077FFFFF CacheMode=2, RW, Valid

0x07800000:0x07FFFFFF 0x007800000:0x007FFFFFF CacheMode=2, RW, Valid

0x77000000:0x777FFFFF 0x007000000:0x0077FFFFF CacheMode=0, RW, Valid

0x77800000:0x77FFFFFF 0x007800000:0x007FFFFFF CacheMode=0, RW, Valid

It is normal operation to have both Valid and Invalid TLB entries.

System was restarted by power-on at 05:53:56 PDT Thu Jun 22 2006

0 spurious cache errors detected.

System Controller Network Interrupts

Wrapper is NOT installed

Registered Interrupts:

Level Mask Count Data Interrupt Handler

Giuseppe Larosa · ‎07-13-2011

Hello Andrew,

unfortunately it is not possible to understand the type of NPE, may you add a sh version?

the document you have linked says that BW calculation points for 1 PA GE is 400 points.

It is not clear however, if there are special cases/combinations.

Hope to help

Giuseppe

Andrew Schulz · ‎07-13-2011

core#sh ver

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software

IOS (tm) 7200 Software (C7200-JS-M), Version 12.3(17a), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

Compiled Mon 12-Dec-05 19:13 by evmiller

Image text-base: 0x60008AF4, data-base: 0x62070000

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(4r)B3, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

BOOTLDR: 7200 Software (C7200-KBOOT-M), Version 12.3(6f), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

core uptime is 1 day, 2 hours, 2 minutes

System returned to ROM by power-on

System restarted at 03:16:53 PDT Tue Jul 12 2011

System image file is "disk0:c7200-js-mz.123-17a.bin"

cisco 7204VXR (NPE225) processor (revision A) with 114688K/16384K bytes of memor y.

Processor board ID 34124007

R527x CPU at 262MHz, Implementation 40, Rev 10.0, 2048KB L2 Cache

4 slot VXR midplane, Version 2.11

Last reset from power-on

Bridging software.

X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.

TN3270 Emulation software.

Primary Rate ISDN software, Version 1.1.

Number of Fast PAs = 3

Number of Fast+Medium PAs = 3

Total number of PA bandwidth points consumed = 490

Please refer to the following document "Cisco 7200 Series Port Adaptor

Hardware Configuration Guidelines" on Cisco.com <http://www.cisco.com>

for c7200 bandwidth points oversubscription and usage guidelines.

4 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)

25 Serial network interface(s)

1 Channelized T3 port(s)

125K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.

62976K bytes of ATA PCMCIA card at slot 0 (Sector size 512 bytes).

8192K bytes of Flash internal SIMM (Sector size 256K).

Configuration register is 0x2102

Giuseppe Larosa · ‎07-13-2011

Hello Andrew,

your router has an NPE 225 with already 3 PA FE.

also the document we are looking provides a table for NPE-225 and the PA-GE is not listed there

So I'm afraid you would need a better NPE

Hope to help

Giuseppe

Andrew Schulz · ‎07-13-2011

Thank you Giuseppe, that's what my conclusion was as well. I will look at getting a better NPE.

Thanks again...