Error message EARL L3 ASIC in CAT 6506

[daniel.espi]

Hello,

I have seen the next message on my Cat 6506:

%EARL_L3_ASIC-SP-3-INTR_WARN: EARL L3 ASIC: Non-fatal interrupt Netflow interrupt

When this message appeared, traffic goes down for few seconds. What means this message?

Regards.

[Yogesh Ramdoss · Accepted solution]

Hello Daniel,

%EARL_L3_ASIC-SP-3-INTR_WARN: EARL L3 ASIC: Non-fatal interrupt Netflow interrupt

Enhanced Address Recognition Logic (EARL) Layer 3 (L3) application-specific integrated

circuit (ASIC) detected an unexpected non-fatal condition. I believe the errors that you are

seeing are single-bit memory error detected in L3 ASIC. Basically, there are two types

of ECC error - soft and hard parity error.

If the switch reported this error only once, then it should be soft parity error which can be

recovered. If the switch continuously report this error, then it should be hard parity error

and may indicate faulty memory/hardware.

Regards,

Yogesh