Cisco 6509 SUP32 SNMP Meltdown With CatOS

Fri Nov 2 21:10:17 UTC 2012

By any chance were you querying a Sup32 that had BGP full routes? That and other large tables can easily swamp the cpu on the Sup32.

This technote is based on IOS, and I don't know if the same facilities exist in CatOS, but as Nick mentioned, run, don't walk and convert to IOS. CatOS is dead.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk362/technologies_tech_note09186a00800948e6.shtml

-----Original Message-----
From: david peahi [mailto:davidpeahi at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 2:37 PM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Cisco 6509 SUP32 SNMP Meltdown With CatOS

Anyone have experience with Cisco 6509E/SUP32 crashing under heavy SNMP
polling load, causing high cpu utilization and 6509 lockup, requiring 6509
reboot? CatOS is deployed. Is the behavior any different with 6509 IOS?

David