12-14-2015 06:18 AM
Hi Community
I have a lot of input, and unrecognized upper-level protocol error on one of my GigabitEthernet Interface.
In the drop queue, I can see they are comming from the follwing queue: PARSE_DROP_IPV6_DISABLED .
I don't have ipv6 enabled on that partical Interface, so why will that ipv6 traffic NOT discard?
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GigabitEthernet0/0/0/19 is up, line protocol is up
Interface state transitions: 33
Hardware is GigabitEthernet, address is d46d.502b.004b (bia d46d.502b.004b)
Description: SwissIX Peering Switch;M;NET;V-1;150216;bosshaad;Peering Switch SwissIX Equinix4
Internet address is 91.206.52.195/23
MTU 1514 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit (Max: 1000000 Kbit)
reliability 255/255, txload 146/255, rxload 3/255
Encapsulation ARPA,
Full-duplex, 1000Mb/s, link type is force-up
output flow control is off, input flow control is off
loopback not set,
ARP type ARPA, ARP timeout 00:10:00
Last input 00:00:00, output 00:00:00
Last clearing of "show interface" counters 05:24:46
5 minute input rate 15525000 bits/sec, 20408 packets/sec
5 minute output rate 573356000 bits/sec, 62546 packets/sec
412883756 packets input, 43777551634 bytes, 1097223 total input drops
2189 drops for unrecognized upper-level protocol
Received 1398016 broadcast packets, 1106594 multicast packets
0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles, 0 parity
0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored, 0 abort
1358510576 packets output, 1568499475524 bytes, 2298 total output drops
Output 0 broadcast packets, 0 multicast packets
0 output errors, 0 underruns, 0 applique, 0 resets
0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out
0 carrier transitions
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Thanks for your feedback
12-14-2015 06:39 AM
Hello Adrian
These packets will be dropped on the interface and will increment 'total input drops'
PARSE_DROP_IPV6_DISABLED (IPv6 packets dropped on receipt from Ethernet due to IPv6 not enabled on interface/subinterface)
You can check the descriptions from these counters
sh controllers np descriptions location 0/x/cpu0
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ASR9001-A#show controllers np descriptions location 0/0/CPU0 | inc PARSE_DROP_IPV6_DISABLED
Mon Dec 14 14:39:02.405 UTC
PARSE_DROP_IPV6_DISABLED Drop L3 IPv6 packets dropped on receipt from Ethernet due to IPv6 not enabled on interface/subinterface
12-15-2015 01:10 AM
Hi
Thanks for your quick feedback, I’m aware that these drops are coming from an ipv6 speaker.
But my question is, how can I avoid the interface counter from incrementing these errors.
I mean ours monitoring does not really like this amount of errors, and I don’t like it’s too J
12-15-2015 01:55 AM
hi Adrian,
today it's not possible to exclude these drops from contributing to the total input drop counter. We have an enhancement in the pipeline that will do exactly this:
https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCun72106/
As a workaround for the current issue you are observing you could enable IPv6 on the interface and apply an IPv6 ACL that drops all traffic.
regards,
Aleksandar
12-15-2015 03:16 AM
Hi Aleksandar
Many thanks for you feedback, I can leave with that workaround, it’s not perfect but better than no option.
Have a good day
Adrian
12-15-2015 05:22 AM
To amplify what Aleksandar says, graphing input drops and categorizing them all as errors is not a "good idea". You'll get many many things that go into that counter, and not all of them are a problem that can be fixed.
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