Looks like a route isn't automatically being created in the CER. That was
an issue with older Cisco code, too.
Frank
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From: foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net
[mailto:foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Valeri Streltsov
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011
Lots to like about the CER but we had to look at the MLX because the CER
only has two 10GE ports.
Frank
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From: foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net
[mailto:foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Robert Hass
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 3:37 AM
To:
My google-fu came up pretty empty-handed. Does anyone have some templates
for the Brocade MLXe-4 (or equivalent) that shows:
- temperature for each slot and sensor
- temperature for each power supply
- memory usage
- cpu usage?
Frank
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foundry-nsp
Frank,
For CPU and Memory on my MLX I downloaded and used some old templates that
were made for Foundry BigIron. Also had to turn on the cpu-usage command
on the box itself.
--Original Message--
From: Frank Bulk
Sender: foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net
To: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
.
Cheers,
Dunc
On 07/05/11 05:06, jmadr...@gmail.com wrote:
Frank,
For CPU and Memory on my MLX I downloaded and used some old templates that
were made for Foundry BigIron. Also had to turn on the cpu-usage command
on the box itself.
--Original Message--
From: Frank Bulk
Sender
I enhanced an existing NAGIOS check_snmp_environment plugin to check power
supply, fan, and temperature of the Brocade MLXe. It may work for the MLX
and XMR I dont know. It automatically scales to the number of power
supplies, fans, and blades (each blade has a different number of
When I mentioned to our Brocade reseller that our MLXe was taking 90 to 120
seconds to boot he found that a little long. So he checked into it - with
double the TCAM in the MLXe than the MLX, the boot time increases.
Otherwise typical boot time is 45 to 60 seconds.
Frank
, Frank Bulk wrote:
Gerwin:
I needed to include the brocade_mlxe_counters.xml file. Here's a new
archive that contains all the files.
If I have time this weekend I will work in making 95^th percentile graph
templates.
Frank
*From:*Gerwin Krist -|- Digitalus Webhosting [mailto:ger...@digitalus.nl
Can you do a show version? When we see the Read LP slot 2 sensor 2
temperature failed alarm we check to see if there is an I2C bus issue.
Frank
From: foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net
[mailto:foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Anand Valmiki
Sent: Tuesday, February 14,
Our transport gear's Ethernet card does not send or process LACP packets
during a soft reboot, so the transport (Active) and Brocade MLXe-4 (Active)
LAG went down during our last maintenance window on the transport network.
Tonight we changed the configuration of the Brocade MLXe-4 to passive by
Thanks for all the clarification received on and off list. I was operating
under the understanding that when in passive mode it fell back to static,
but that's not the case.
Thanks,
Frank
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From: foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net
I've turned jumbo-frames on, but have done nothing with super-aggregated
vlan support. My understand is that it's for Q-in-Q support, and my
application has double-tagged traffic that passes through the ICX, keyed on
the outer tag. As I've said before, why does the switch even look past the
...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Frank Bulk -
iName.com
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 2:51 PM
To: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: [f-nsp] Preserving double-tagged traffic on ICX6100
We're having difficulty moving double-tagged traffic through the ICX6100.
The inner tag (235) is being removed
: Frank Bulk; foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] Preserving double-tagged traffic on ICX6100
On 23 apr. 2012, at 09:49, Igor Ybema wrote:
Thanks to the person who contacted me offlist -- I've been pointed to
defect
377562, which I'm told is fixed on the FLS but not the ICX
[mailto:foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Paul Cook
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 1:21 PM
To: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] Preserving double-tagged traffic on ICX6100
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Frank Bulk frnk...@iname.com wrote:
As wrote in another email, Brocade has
Thanks. I assume the ICX6430 and 6100 use different builds?
Frank
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From: i...@ergens.org [mailto:i...@ergens.org] On Behalf Of Igor Ybema
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 2:25 AM
To: Frank Bulk
Cc: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] Preserving double-tagged
Igor:
I'm not in a position to test this as you've asked, but I can confirm from
what the Brocade support engineer told me is that the issue was with how the
CPU handled double-tagged broadcast traffic (ARP). The problem has been
replicated on 1G ports, unstacked, and non-LAG.
Frank
interface from LACP group
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Frank Bulk frnk...@iname.com wrote:
I think you're confusing static (non-LACP) and active (LACP) trunks.
If you use active you don't use trunk statements. You should just be able
to remove the link-aggregate statements from the Ethernet
I think you're confusing static (non-LACP) and active (LACP) trunks.
If you use active you don't use trunk statements. You should just be able
to remove the link-aggregate statements from the Ethernet interface.
Frank
-Original Message-
From: foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net
Tested over both IPv4 and IPv6 using Chrome, IE, and wget - pages that pull
from documents fail to load. Eg:
http://www.brocade.com/forms/getFile?p=documents/faqs/icx-6400-switch-faq.pd
f
http://www.brocade.com/forms/getFile?p=documents/product_manuals/B_FastIron/
FI_07400a_CFG.html
Can
-faq.pdf
They must have broken that script.
Dave
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Frank Bulk frnk...@iname.com
mailto:frnk...@iname.com wrote:
Tested over both IPv4 and IPv6 using Chrome, IE, and wget - pages that pull
from documents fail to load. Eg:
http://www.brocade.com/forms/getFile?p
I've been burned too many times over the years with products where
uploading/copying code shouldn't have caused a problem, but did.Unless
I'm willing to accept a service interruption, I now upload/copy code during
the maintenance window, or a day before.
Frank
From: foundry-nsp
So you're looking for L2 isolation and protection? Typically you need
access gear from vendors like ADTRAN, Calix, and Zyxel to do that...
Frank
-Original Message-
From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
Mark Price
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013
We inserted an MLXe-4 into a Brocade ring this morning and it didn't go so
well. We saw most IP video traffic (1.3 Gbps) not flow through, and when we
moved an inter-border router link from eth 1/2 to eth 2/2 we saw significant
packet loss on other Internet VLANs (all on eth 1/x). Moving it back
No, they're not.
Frank
-Original Message-
From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
Steven Raymond
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 3:24 PM
To: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] Packet loss on MLXe-4
On Sep 17, 2013, at 2:17 PM, Frank
to them)
Do you get the same packet loss on other ports on slot 2? First blush
would be a bad packet processor. Do you have a spare you can drop in to
test?
Aaron
On 9/17/2013 3:17 PM, Frank Bulk wrote:
We inserted an MLXe-4 into a Brocade ring this morning and it didn't go so
well. We saw
Thanks for the suggestions. I believe I checked the sfm utilization during
the maintenance window, and there were no sfm errors. But we did not try
powering off one at a time. We'll have to try that.
TM's didn't throw errors and appeared clean.
Regards,
Frank Bulk
From: Mike
I have pair of ICX6650's running ICXR08001.bin configured using MCT. This
morning our NOC called me out of bed because a 10G link was down on our
transport. After some poking around on the second ICX6650, trying to figure
out why it wouldn't' bring the 10G port up, I discover that CCP
I suspect there's no rolling stack upgrade support. It's been something
I've been asking for on the ICX6610's, too.
Regards,
Frank
From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
salman sadiq
Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2013 10:42 PM
To:
It's unfortunate that Brocade doesn't support this - it would be a huge plus
for MC-LAG configurations.
Frank
From: salman sadiq [mailto:salmanrav...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2013 11:04 PM
To: Frank Bulk
Cc: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] Rolling Stack
You can't control the hashing on inbound, but you can configure the
outbound.
For the Linux machine there appears to be two options: layer2 or layer3+4
(http://www.cyberciti.biz/howto/question/static/linux-ethernet-bonding-drive
r-howto.php).
Frank
-Original Message-
From: foundry-nsp
As I posted on the Calix Community for you today, Accedian NIDs and their link
propagation feature that uses EVC status. =)
Frank
-Original Message-
From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
Richard Laager
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 3:51 PM
To:
A few weeks ago a customer alerted us to a packet loss issue that we
eventually traced down to a loop in a LAG on some access gear (not Brocade
gear).
In the process of troubleshooting and looking at MAC address tables on the
intermediate gear we connected the WAN interface of a simple
...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
Frank Bulk
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2014 3:01 PM
To: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: [f-nsp] MAC address table issues with ICX 6610 stack running
7.4.00f switch code
A few weeks ago a customer alerted us to a packet loss issue that we
eventually traced down to a loop
).
Thanks in advance,
Frank
-Original Message-
From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
Frank Bulk (iname.com)
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 10:50 AM
To: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] MAC address table issues with ICX 6610 stack
By default the Ethertype for the initial EAPOL exchange is 0x888E while
MACsec content has a 0x88E5 Ethertype. Will the VLL carry that
transparently?
Frank
From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
Ben Cornish
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 5:01 PM
To:
Please open a ticket so that it becomes known, and report back the Defect
number to us. =)
Frank
-Original Message-
From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
Clement Cavadore
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 12:19 PM
To: Mike Tindle
Cc:
Hopefully someone else can open a ticket, then. I know that HE has Brocade's
ear.
Frank
-Original Message-
From: Clement Cavadore [mailto:clem...@cavadore.net]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 12:24 PM
To: Frank Bulk
Cc: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] IP/ARP: IP
Do you have MLD snooping turned on? If so, that could be an issue.
Frank
From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
Justin Keery
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 4:04 AM
To: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: [f-nsp] ANY IDEAS - IP6 multicast traffic
Thanks. Have you read this blog and discussion?
http://blog.ipspace.net/2014/09/ipv6-neighbor-discovery-nd-and.html
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/v6ops/current/msg19877.html [very long
breaks into a couple of sub-threads, but worth reading]
Frank
From: foundry-nsp
...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
Frank Bulk
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2014 6:09 PM
To: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] MAC address table issues with ICX 6610 stack running
7.4.00f switch code
I'm looking to find more examples of the issue in the field. I'd appreciate
if anyone
-Original Message-
From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
Frank Bulk
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2014 8:22 PM
To: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] MAC address table issues with ICX 6610 stack running
7.4.00f switch code
I have an update
So don’t errors like this suggest replacing the hardware?
Frank
From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
Brad Fleming
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 3:10 PM
To: Josh Galvez
Cc: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] MLX throughput issues
Based on what you described it seems more to be the case that the FLS648 is
dropping throughput from ~70 Mbps to 20 Mbps (I presume you mean bits, not
bytes when you write MB/s).
How do you know that the remote speed server is not maxed out? Or that your
uplink is not maxed out?
Frank
.
Frank
-Original Message-
From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
Frank Bulk
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 12:51 AM
To: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] MAC address table issues with ICX 6610 stack running
7.4.00f switch code
I reached out to their NOC email address earlier today, but no response
(never have received one).
IPv6 access to www.brocade.com has been down since 10:05 am (U.S. Central).
Based on the two points I tested from it's as if their prefix is not
propagating.
Frank
[fbulk@puck ~]$ traceroute6
if they'd
remove their quad A until they fix it since their website is down for me
now lol.
-Original Message-
From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf
Of Frank Bulk
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 7:13 PM
To: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: [f-nsp] IPv6
That's my understanding, too, after having talked to my Brocade folk.
Frank
-Original Message-
From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
Matthias Cramer
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 1:08 AM
To: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] BRAS/BNG
Thanks for sharing. We're running 10k.
Frank
-Original Message-
From: Nick Cutting [mailto:ncutt...@edgetg.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 2:36 AM
To: Frank Bulk frnk...@iname.com
Cc: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: RE: Flapping stack
I was running FCXR08010g.bin
I am now
To: Frank Bulk frnk...@iname.com
Cc: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] List filtered BGP routes via SNMP
I looked at an old Foundry MIB; might these work?
SnBgp4RouteOperStatusEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
snBgp4RouteOperStatusIndex
Integer32
operational status table, it doesn't have a table where it stores the received
prefixes which would allow me to do a comparison.
Frank
-Original Message-
From: Brad Fleming [mailto:bdfle...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 3:09 PM
To: Frank Bulk frnk...@iname.com
Cc: foundry-nsp
What code are you running on that ICX6610?
Frank
-Original Message-
From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
Nick Cutting
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 10:42 AM
To: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: [f-nsp] Flapping stack
Good afternoon chaps,
I
My google and SNMP-fu is failing me - how does one access, via SNMP,
filtered BGP routes, or via SNMP pull down the received route table to
compare to the installed routes?
Platform is Brocade MLXe.
Frank
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I see the same thing using wget. While I monitor Brocade's home page over
IPv6, it just checks for an HTTP response and doesn't pull the full page or
follow through on redirects.
Whenever I have problems loading their site over IPv6 I always think back to
this press release:
Brocade has
Can you list out the linecards in each shelf? (show module)
Frank
-Original Message-
From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
Alexander Shikoff
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 5:43 AM
To: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: [f-nsp] System Mode: XMR
I'm running into an issue where our transport gear can't have their LAGs
hash on IP for egress (from Transport #2 to Brocade MLXe #2), so I need a
way generate more IPs (and MAC addresses) so I can use ECMP on Brocade MLXe
#1 to send traffic to both IPs (and therefore both MACs), and then traffic
Eldon,
Our Brocade reseller is aware of the issue you're describing and says it's
being worked on. He's asking what code release you're on and if it's 10G or
40G specific.
Frank
-Original Message-
From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
Eldon Koyle
http://www1.brocade.com/downloads/documents/html_product_manuals/NI_05300a_D
IAG/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm#href=Security_diagnostics.11.12.ht
ml=true
Is this "panic" something that's a bug and will be fixed, or is it a feature
with a silver lining I'm not aware of?
Frank
In our situation the router ended being 21+ minutes off ... apparently stopped
synching altogether. Doesn't seem like a great feature.
Frank
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From: Jake Mertel [mailto:jake.mer...@ubiquityhosting.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 2:25 PM
To: Frank Bulk <f
Message-
From: Brian Rak [mailto:b...@gameservers.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 2:50 PM
To: Frank Bulk <frnk...@iname.com>
Cc: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] NTP panic mode on NetIron
If it's anything like the reference NTP client, it'll only do that big
jump at s
Youssef,
Thanks, that’s exactly my point – the hard work of extracting the data from the
optic has already been done, it’s just a matter of exposing it in right MIB of
the SNMP engine.
Frank
From: Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr [mailto:benge...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2017 1:21
609c9fd73700
-Christopher
On Wed, 2018-10-10 at 11:59 -0500, Frank Bulk wrote:
We had network event deeper in our network that resulted in some kind of
spanning tree event as evidenced by a TC (topology change) on our L2-only
ICX6610 stack. What surprised us was that one VLAN going
] Spanning-tree event on single VLAN brings down LAG?
If you have a lag, perhaps you have no loops and can filter bpdu's to see if it
stops happening. Also consider rstp instead of stp.
On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 4:33 PM Frank Bulk mailto:frnk...@iname.com> > wrote:
We did not expect the
We had network event deeper in our network that resulted in some kind of
spanning tree event as evidenced by a TC (topology change) on our L2-only
ICX6610 stack. What surprised us was that one VLAN going into a blocking
state resulted in the south bound LAG going down.
This is probably not
I scoured the documentation and tried some google-fu, but failed.
Does anyone know if the Brocade ICX product, in layer 3, will perform a
unicast or broadcast ARP request before the ARP entry ages? I was told by
Cisco TAC that Cisco's IOS products do that, but I couldn't find any
indication that
The first thought that comes to mind is that there is a MAC address table hash
issue.
This vendor does a good job of explaining it:
https://www.calix.com/content/dam/calix/mycalix-misc/lib/iae/exa/m/eanepg/index.htm?toc10152651.htm?101585.htm
Frank
From: foundry-nsp On Behalf Of
,
Neil
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From: foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:foundry-nsp-
boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Frank Bulk
Sent: 10 May 2011 06:57
To: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: [f-nsp] NAGIOS plugin for Brocade MLXe
I enhanced an existing NAGIOS
is indeed only for MLX based
machines. For example all TX/RX oids your using
(.1.3.6.1.4.1.1991.1.2.2.21.1) are non-filled (not even zero).
I will give it a shot to find the correct oid. How did you find the
correct ones?
Regards,
Gerwin Krist
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:36:58 -0500, Frank Bulk
We're having difficulty moving double-tagged traffic through the ICX6100.
The inner tag (235) is being removed somewhere inside the Brocade because
packet captures from the Brocade's ingress port (tagged 1048) show two tags
while the Brocade's egress port (tagged 1048) shows one tag (captures
MirrorToAnalyze [105]= False
Bits(24:13)=0x7, user_defined=0, trunk=yes, port=3
[STBY]rconsole-1@ICX6610-24 Switc
-Original Message-
From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
Frank Bulk
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 9:16 PM
To: foundry-nsp
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