SW Forwarding - Drops

[simoesmarco8626982]

Hi all,

hope you can help me understand this. I searched on the forum but couldn't find exactly the answer to what this could mean

When doing the command "show controllers cpu", I get the following on the sw forwarding:

                     retrieved       dropped      invalid      hol-block
sw forwarding 53865           7846             0              0

All the interfaces have 0 drops and the cpu is at 3% utilization

What does the fw forwarding means? Should I worry about those drops?

Thank you

[Reza Sharifi]

Hi,

What platform do you use and what is the issue you are trying to resolve?

HTH

[simoesmarco8626982]

Hi, 

Sorry forgot to say it's a Cisco 3650, the issue itself is none, I'm just monitoring the switch and saw those drops on the CPU controllers, but don't know if I should worry to be honest, my biggest issue is I don't know what the sw forwarding does and means

[Reza Sharifi · Accepted solution]

Hi,

See this post on management and forwarding plane.

https://community.cisco.com/t5/switching/management-control-and-data-plane/td-p/2803553

HTH

[simoesmarco8626982]

Thank you Reza