> On 3 Oct 2017, at 17:32, Saxena, Nitin <nitin.sax...@cavium.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> While running ping between VM1 to VM2 on aarch64, configured using vhost-user 
> interface, I am seeing following L2 errors in VPP v1710 for each ICMP packet 
> sent
> 
> --------------------------------
> DBGvpp# show err    
>    Count                    Node                  Reason
>       1096                l2-output               L2 output packets
>       1096                l2-learn                L2 learn packets
>          2                l2-learn                L2 learn misses
>         36                l2-learn                L2 learn hit updates
>       1096                l2-input                L2 input packets
>         35                l2-flood                L2 flood packets
>          8         VirtualEthernet0/0/0-tx        tx packet drops (no 
> available descriptors)
> DBGvpp# sh int
>               Name               Idx       State          Counter          
> Count     
> VirtualEthernet0/0/0              1         up       rx packets               
>     552
>                                                      rx bytes                 
>   52876
>                                                      tx packets               
>     552
>                                                      tx bytes                 
>   52876
>                                                      drops                    
>       8
> VirtualEthernet0/0/1              2         up       rx packets               
>     552
>                                                      rx bytes                 
>   52876
>                                                      tx packets               
>     552
>                                                      tx bytes                 
>   52876
> local0                            0        down      
> DBGvpp# show version
> vpp v17.10-rc1~4-gbd70c2f built by nsaxena on sbr2s-10 at Tue Oct  3 08:16:41 
> UTC 2017
> --------------------------------
> 
> Are these errors are false alarm ? While ping is working fine between two 
> VM's these errors are raising false alarms to me. Seems like a problem to me. 
> If something to be fixed I can contribute to fix these errors.

Those counters are simply counting packets in the l2fib. You will get same 
output if  you do “show counters”.
nothing to worry about. Still I agree that this is confusing and that we might 
consider separating error counters from the normal ones...


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