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тАО05-16-2006 08:08 AM
тАО05-16-2006 08:08 AM
5308xl virus throttling freezes switch
The 5308xl with ip routing enabled at the core is connected with Gb uplinks to four 2824s, one per each dorms building.
Each 2824 is ip routing enabled and Gb connected to nine 2524s. Ip routing on 2824 is enabled because we have two subnets under each one: a /24 and a /25. Therefore I avoided routing the traffic between those two subnets through a Gb upling to the 5308xl and routed them over the 2824.
For each 2824 we defined static routes to the other subnets routed by the other 2824s in the rest of the dorms buildings. Thus the traffic between the dorm buildings is not routed by 5308xl but routed between 2824s. In this case only Layer 2 is used on 5308xl.
However, the default route on each 2824s is through the 5308xl. A good point to start with throttling as the 5308xl is routing only Internet traffic.
Test 1
filter connection-rate is set to BLOCK on the uplink ports to the 2824s
connection-rate-filter sensitivity is set to LOW
During high traffic as the list of blocked hosts increases the switch freezes. Stops responding to ping, serial console. Only power cycle will do.
Test 2
filter connection-rate is set to THROTTLE on the uplink ports to the 2824s
connection-rate-filter sensitivity is set to LOW
The switch holds ok. Is not a lab environment, but however at the given time an traffic it was working.
Test 3
filter connection-rate is set to THROTTLE on the uplink ports to the 2824s
connection-rate-filter sensitivity is set to AGGRESIVE
Even sooner that at test 1 the switch freezes with the same simpthoms.
No crash data or crash log available.
It seems like a problem related to the maximum number of throttled/blocked hosts at one time.
Has anyone encountered the same? Is there any workaround?
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тАО05-16-2006 11:44 AM
тАО05-16-2006 11:44 AM
Re: 5308xl virus throttling freezes switch
What I would do is from the serial connnection, open 'menu', then 'Status and Counters > General System Information - and watch this screen when you enable the connection-rate filtering. Does the CPU shoot up initially before it freezes?
To me it sounds like it might be overwhelming the CPU.
I can't think of any workarounds for this personally, I'd recommend you contact support if you're already running the latest firmware and the problem is continuing.
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тАО05-16-2006 10:54 PM
тАО05-16-2006 10:54 PM
Re: 5308xl virus throttling freezes switch
Tried what you suggested and the switch freezes while CPU remaining at 2% utilisation. During normal (virus throttling off) operation it never reached 50%.
I will try also to stop any SNMP queries to the switch while enabling virus throttling again. Maybe it won't help but at least I know for sure it isn't from SNMP.
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тАО05-17-2006 06:56 AM
тАО05-17-2006 06:56 AM
Re: 5308xl virus throttling freezes switch
The switch freezes only when I issue the "show connection-rate-filter all-hosts/blocked-hosts/throttled-hosts" command and the trottled/blocked host list is around 20 IP's.
Funny thing, after the command is typed there's no need to press
If the command is simply issued "show connection-rate-filter
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тАО05-17-2006 11:57 AM
тАО05-17-2006 11:57 AM
Re: 5308xl virus throttling freezes switch
If you could capture a 'show tech all' from the switch and have that ready it will speed things along.