10-19-2008 12:22 AM - edited 03-06-2019 02:01 AM
Hi,
is anyone there facing the following Problem.
I have the problem that different Cisco MLS switches (3650E,3750) are dropping multicast traffic over L3 links when they are connected over a gigabit(fiber or cooper) and the multicast traffic have a size > 32000 Bytes so the udp packets have to be fragmented. To rebuild the problem you need two Layer3 switches (ipbase or advance) connected over a L3 Link and a multicast sender and receiver (for exampel wsend,wlisten). Each in different networks so the traffic have to be routed over the transfer L3 Link and then in the according vlan where the receiver is connected. If the Sender or the link between the switches are 100 Mbit no problem occurs. But if both links are 1Gig and the payload is >30000Byte udp packets are dropped on the receiver side. There is no counter showing this drops on the switch but you can see it in the wlisten tool or if you trace the packets. I have tested it with different configuration of multicast. Using dense or sparse, pim v1 or v2 the problem still exists. The only solution is to connect the sender with 100Mbit or reduce the Uplink between the switches to 100Mbit. But this could not be the solution.
11-13-2018 08:05 AM
I am getting somewhat of the same issue.. Running IOS XE 16.06.04 on the 3850.. Links on my setup are L2 fiber links... Multicast video streams just fine on a reboot of the 3850 switch stack but gradually starts dropping and day goes on.. I have one 3850 switch stack that consist of 1 3850-24P-S and 1 3850-12S-S... I don't know if the stack cables are playing any part in the issue or not. We have four stations that stream 10 multicast camera feeds from each station and each station has a 2960x that is connected to the switchstack via fiber... Never had this issue when running IOS XE version 3.7.5...
1. Does anyone think the default CoPP could be dropping the video?
2. How much longer is the 3.7.* version going to be supported/developed?
3. Explain the differences in Fuji, Everest and Denali version....
11-13-2018 08:13 AM - edited 11-13-2018 08:47 AM
Hello
Have you check the similarities between old/new ios-xe versions also for any bugs the new version may contain?
What pim mode are you running? Do you have gimp snooping enabled on the switches ?
11-13-2018 09:20 AM
I currently have ip pim sparse-dense-mode turned on on all the VLAN interfaces....
IGMP snooping is enabled....
From what I have read so far is that the recommendation is to run Denali 16.3.* version as it is Cisco's recommended version from a step up from 3.7.5...
Going to give this a try and see how this works... Most issues are where I have no access to switches so I have to get other personnel the IOS XE and instructions on how to downgrade to this..
I will update this when it is determined either the fix works or not....
11-20-2018 10:10 AM
Well disabling the system-cpp-police-mulitcast policer has helped.. The video is still dropping on one or two now not 8 or more.... I think there is still some information that I am not getting from the field as to how the links between systems are built.. But for now this is working...
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