Lucent GBE (4 x VC4) clues needed
David Temkin
dave at rightmedia.com
Thu Sep 21 13:32:03 UTC 2006
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On
> Behalf Of Saku Ytti
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 9:12 AM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Lucent GBE (4 x VC4) clues needed
>
>
> (oops technical question in nanog, wearing my asbestos suit)
>
> Consider this topology
>
> GSR - 3750 --(GE over 4xVC4) - NSE100 - NSE100 --(GE over
> 4xVC4) -- 3550 - GSR
>
> All other fibres are dark fibres, except marked.
>
> When we ping either NSE100 <-> GSR leg, when there is no
> background traffic there is no packet loss. If there is even
> few Mbps, lets say 10Mbps of background traffic we get 1-5%
> packet loss on 1500 bytes, and bit less packet loss on small
> packets. As background traffic increases packet loss quickly
> increases.
>
> We tried to replace (GSR-3750) with 7600, but same issue persisted.
>
> We've measured both Lucent GBE legs with having loop in other
> end and pushing tests from EXFO and Smartbits gear through
> the loop, no errors can be detected in RFC tests.
>
> There isn't very much that can be configured in the Lucent,
> and we've tried pretty much every setting. We've tried to set
> autonego on and off in every gear in the path, without any
> changes to observed behaviour. We've also tried to use use
> 1xVC4, without any changes to the behaviour. All VC4's in
> given leg are using same path.
> Even though we test the packet loss pinging from router link
> to router link, same packet loss is experienced for transit
> traffic also. We've tried to turn PXF off in NSE100. Packets
> between NSE100 <-> NSE100 over dark fibre are not lost.
>
> We're pretty much utterly without clues. All I can think off
> is some obscure IFG issue, that is, NSE100 would have less
> than perfect timing for IFG which would confuse Lucent
> regarding what is part of which frame. Does stuff like this
> really happen?
>
> NSE100 drops bad IP packets in PXF and there is only shared
> counter, so I can't tell if I get CRC for IP, I just loose
> the packets. But IS-IS is not handled in PXF, and I get
> %CLNS-4-LSPCKSUM and %CLNS-3-BADPACKET messages over both
> Lucent legs, but not between the NSE100's.
> So I assume the packets are not dropped, but broken.
>
>
> I swear next time I'll complain about some political issue, thanks,
> --
> ++ytti
>
Silly question (considering that you stated that IS-IS is borked also,
which is not handled by PXF - but did you try disabling PXF?
There's a reason why Cisco discontinued every product that "features"
it. It's broken.
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