SUN Server issues with C4507R-E

[nedian123]

Hi,

Has someone experienced loss of traffic on Layer-2 b/w SUN Solaris 8 Servers. Both the servers are in single Vlan. File transfer is having breaks. There are no errors on switch interfaces. SUN Server NICs are GiG & I have verified on switch & found that there are no duplexing or speed issues.

We have tried connecting them to other ports on the same switch but problem persists.

Can we suspect this might be because of Interoperability issues like flow control.....SUN Server NIC settings are attached.

Switch IOS

cat4500e-entservicesk9-mz.122-44.SG

Regards,

Akhtar

[Giuseppe Larosa]

Hello Aktar,

post a sh interface gix/y   of interfaces connected to SUN servers

or look for

input and output pause frames counters these could lead to flow control action.

Also it is important to verify what linecards the ports belong to?

you can check this with

sh module

older linecards are highly oversubscribed they provide 6 Gbps per slot so for 48 GE linecards 8 ports share 1 Gbps ASIC resources.

new linecards with final E are able to connect at 24 Gbps per slot

Hope to help

Giuseppe

[nedian123]

Following is output. Module is WS-X4648-RJ45V-E. I can't see any pause frames as well.

show interfaces gigabitEthernet 2/38
GigabitEthernet2/38 is up, line protocol is up (connected)
  Hardware is Gigabit Ethernet Port, address is 001e.7aef.1b75 (bia 001e.7aef.1b75)
  Description: **** Connected to Server-1****
  MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit, DLY 10 usec,
     reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
  Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
  Keepalive set (10 sec)
  Full-duplex, 1000Mb/s, link type is auto, media type is 10/100/1000-TX
  input flow-control is on, output flow-control is on
  Auto-MDIX on (operational: on)
  ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
  Last input never, output never, output hang never
  Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
  Input queue: 0/2000/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0
  Queueing strategy: fifo
  Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)
  5 minute input rate 434000 bits/sec, 261 packets/sec
  5 minute output rate 487000 bits/sec, 278 packets/sec
     131823267 packets input, 133622619087 bytes, 0 no buffer
     Received 23828 broadcasts (3809 multicasts)
     0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
     0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
     0 input packets with dribble condition detected
     108805647 packets output, 75640961052 bytes, 0 underruns
     0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets
     0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
     0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier
     0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out

*******************

show interfaces gigabitEthernet 2/37
GigabitEthernet2/37 is up, line protocol is up (connected)
  Hardware is Gigabit Ethernet Port, address is 001e.7aef.1b74 (bia 001e.7aef.1b74)
  Description: **** Connected to Server-2 ****
  MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit, DLY 10 usec,
     reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
  Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
  Keepalive set (10 sec)
  Full-duplex, 1000Mb/s, link type is auto, media type is 10/100/1000-TX
  input flow-control is on, output flow-control is on
  Auto-MDIX on (operational: on)
  ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
  Last input never, output never, output hang never
  Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
  Input queue: 0/2000/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0
  Queueing strategy: fifo
  Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)
  5 minute input rate 1098000 bits/sec, 231 packets/sec
  5 minute output rate 1084000 bits/sec, 233 packets/sec
     121454127 packets input, 124997917485 bytes, 0 no buffer
     Received 18716 broadcasts (0 multicasts)
     0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
     0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
     0 input packets with dribble condition detected
     108166192 packets output, 83975338860 bytes, 0 underruns
     0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets
     0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
     0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier
     0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out

[Ganesh Hariharan]

Hi,
Has
someone experienced loss of traffic on Layer-2 b/w SUN Solaris 8
Servers. Both the servers are in single Vlan. File transfer is having
breaks. There are no errors on switch interfaces. SUN Server NICs are
GiG & I have verified on switch & found that there are no
duplexing or speed issues.
We have tried connecting them to other ports on the same switch but problem persists.
Can we suspect this might be because of Interoperability issues like flow control.....SUN Server NIC settings are attached.
Switch IOS
cat4500e-entservicesk9-mz.122-44.SG
Regards,
Akhtar

Hi Akhtar,

Kindly clarify is the sun server is having dual nic connectivity with switch,If yes then check the teaming configuartion of nic at sun server end.If it Active/Active configuration then change that to Active/Passive configuration and then check the ftp between the server.

and also check the ftp space issue in destination directory while uploading or downloading.

Hope to help

Ganesh.H