Product Overview


Note For complete syntax and usage information for the commands used in this chapter, see these publications:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11846/prod_command_reference_list.html

  • Cisco IOS Release 15.1SY supports only Ethernet interfaces. Cisco IOS Release 15.1SY does not support any WAN features or commands.
  • For complete information about the supported chassis, modules, and software features, see the Release Notes for Cisco IOS Release 15.1SY :

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst6500/ios/15.1SY/release_notes.html


 


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Supervisor Engine 2T-10GE Flash Memory Devices

  • disk0: (active) and slavedisk0: (standby):

External CompactFlash Type II slots

For CompactFlash Type II flash PC cards sold by Cisco Systems, Inc.

  • bootdisk: (active) and slavebootdisk: (standby): 1-GB internal flash memory

Supervisor Engine 2T-10GE Ports

  • Console ports:

EIA/TIA-232 (RS-232) port with RJ-45 connector

USB port

By default (no media-type rj45 configured on the console 0 interface), either connector can be used and if an active USB connection is detected, the RJ-45 connector is deactivated. With the no media-type rj45 command configured on the console 0 interface, the RJ-45 connector can only be used when there is no active USB connection. With the media-type rj45 command configured on the console 0 interface, only the RJ-45 connector can be used. See this publication for information about USB drivers:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst6500/hardware/Module_Installation/Sup_Eng_Guide/03instal.html#USB_Console_Port_Driver_Installation


Note With Release 15.1(1)SY, be aware of the console disconnect feature, which is enabled by default.


  • Ports 1, 2, and 3: Gigabit Ethernet SFP (fiber or 10/100/1000 Mbps RJ-45)
  • Ports 4 and 5—10-Gigabit Ethernet X2

Note The 1-Gigabit Ethernet ports and the 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports have the same QoS port architecture (2q4t/1p3q4t) unless you disable the 1-Gigabit Ethernet ports with the platform qos 10g-only global configuration command. With the 1-Gigabit Ethernet ports disabled, the QoS port architecture of the 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports is 8q4t/1p7q4t.


 

See the “How to Configure Optional Interface Features” section for information about configuring the ports.

Supervisor Engine 2T-10GE Connectivity Management Processor (CMP)

See this publication:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst6500/cmp_configuration/guide/sup2T_10GEcmp.html

Determining System Hardware Capacity

You can determine the system hardware capacity by entering the show platform hardware capacity command. This command displays the current system utilization of the hardware resources and displays a list of the currently available hardware capacities, including the following:

  • Hardware forwarding table utilization
  • Switch fabric utilization
  • CPU(s) utilization
  • Memory device (flash, DRAM, NVRAM) utilization

This example shows how to display CPU capacity and utilization information for the route processor, the switch processor, and a switching module:

Router# show platform hardware capacity cpu
CPU Resources
CPU utilization: Module 5 seconds 1 minute 5 minutes
3 0% / 0% 1% 1%
7 RP 2% / 0% 1% 1%
Processor memory: Module Bytes: Total Used %Used
3 1612928756 164136704 10%
7 RP 1569347520 242739196 15%
I/O memory: Module Bytes: Total Used %Used
3 268435456 21163672 8%
7 RP 268435456 110324056 41%
 
Router#
 

This example shows how to display EOBC-related statistics for the route processor, the switch processor, and the DFCs:

Router# show platform hardware capacity eobc
EOBC Resources
Module Packets/sec Total packets Dropped packets
3 Rx: 25 57626 0
Tx: 19 45490 0
7 RP Rx: 36456689392 54747 0
Tx: 25 66898 0
 

This example shows how to display the current and peak switching utilization:

Router# show platform hardware capacity fabric
Bus utilization: current is 100%, peak was 100% at 12:34 12mar45
Fabric utilization: ingress egress
Module channel speed current peak current peak
1 0 20G 100% 100% 12:34 12mar45 100% 100% 12:34 12mar45
1 1 20G 12% 80% 12:34 12mar45 12% 80% 12:34 12mar45
4 0 20G 12% 80% 12:34 12mar45 12% 80% 12:34 12mar45
13 0 8G 12% 80% 12:34 12mar45 12% 80% 12:34 12mar45
 

This example shows how to display information about the total capacity, the bytes used, and the percentage that is used for the flash and NVRAM resources present in the system:

Router# show platform hardware capacity flash
Flash/NVRAM Resources
Usage: Module Device Bytes: Total Used %Used
3 dfc#3-bootflash: 15990784 0 0%
7 RP nvram: 2552192 40640 2%
7 RP const_nvram: 1048556 676 1%
7 RP bootdisk: 1024196608 99713024 10%
7 RP disk0: 1024655360 77824000 8%
 

This example shows how to display the capacity and utilization of the PFC and DFCs present in the system:

Router# show platform hardware capacity forwarding
L2 Forwarding Resources
MAC Table usage: Module Collisions Total Used %Used
6 0 65536 11 1%
VPN CAM usage: Total Used %Used
512 0 0%
L3 Forwarding Resources
FIB TCAM usage: Total Used %Used
72 bits (IPv4, MPLS, EoM) 196608 36 1%
144 bits (IP mcast, IPv6) 32768 7 1%
 
detail: Protocol Used %Used
IPv4 36 1%
MPLS 0 0%
EoM 0 0%
 
IPv6 4 1%
IPv4 mcast 3 1%
IPv6 mcast 0 0%
 
Adjacency usage: Total Used %Used
1048576 175 1%
 
Forwarding engine load:
Module pps peak-pps peak-time
6 8 1972 02:02:17 UTC Thu Apr 21 2005
 
Netflow Resources
TCAM utilization: Module Created Failed %Used
6 1 0 0%
ICAM utilization: Module Created Failed %Used
6 0 0 0%
 
Flowmasks: Mask# Type Features
IPv4: 0 reserved none
IPv4: 1 Intf FulNAT_INGRESS NAT_EGRESS FM_GUARDIAN
IPv4: 2 unused none
IPv4: 3 reserved none
 
IPv6: 0 reserved none
IPv6: 1 unused none
IPv6: 2 unused none
IPv6: 3 reserved none
 
CPU Rate Limiters Resources
Rate limiters: Total Used Reserved %Used
Layer 3 9 4 1 44%
Layer 2 4 2 2 50%
 
ACL/QoS TCAM Resources
Key: ACLent - ACL TCAM entries, ACLmsk - ACL TCAM masks, AND - ANDOR,
QoSent - QoS TCAM entries, QOSmsk - QoS TCAM masks, OR - ORAND,
Lbl-in - ingress label, Lbl-eg - egress label, LOUsrc - LOU source,
LOUdst - LOU destination, ADJ - ACL adjacency
 
Module ACLent ACLmsk QoSent QoSmsk Lbl-in Lbl-eg LOUsrc LOUdst AND OR ADJ
6 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 0% 0% 0% 0% 1%
 
Router#
 

This example shows how to display the interface resources:

Router# show platform hardware capacity interface
Interface drops:
Module Total drops: Tx Rx Highest drop port: Tx Rx
9 0 2 0 48
 
Interface buffer sizes:
Module Bytes: Tx buffer Rx buffer
1 12345 12345
5 12345 12345
Router#
 

This example shows how to display SPAN information:

Router# show platform hardware capacity monitor
Source sessions: 2 maximum, 0 used
Type Used
Local 0
RSPAN source 0
ERSPAN source 0
Service module 0
Destination sessions: 64 maximum, 0 used
Type Used
RSPAN destination 0
ERSPAN destination (max 24) 0
Router#
 

This example shows how to display the capacity and utilization of resources for Layer 3 multicast functionality:

Router# show platform hardware capacity multicast
L3 Multicast Resources
IPv4 replication mode: ingress
IPv6 replication mode: ingress
Bi-directional PIM Designated Forwarder Table usage: 4 total, 0 (0%) used
Replication capability: Module IPv4 IPv6
5 egress egress
9 ingress ingress
MET table Entries: Module Total Used %Used
5 65526 6 0%
Router#
 

This example shows how to display information about the system power capacities and utilizations:

Router# show platform hardware capacity power
Power Resources
Power supply redundancy mode: administratively redundant
operationally non-redundant (single power supply)
System power: 3795W, 0W (0%) inline, 865W (23%) total allocated
Powered devices: 0 total, 0 Class3, 0 Class2, 0 Class1, 0 Class0, 0 Cisco
Router#
 

This example shows how to display the capacity and utilization of QoS policer resources for each PFC and DFC:

Router# show platform hardware capacity qos
QoS Policer Resources
Aggregate policers: Module Total Used %Used
6 16384 16 1%
Microflow policer configurations: Module Total Used %Used
6 128 1 1%
Netflow policer configurations: Module Total Used %Used
6 384 0 0%
Aggregate policer configs: Module Total Used %Used
6 1024 8 1%
Distributed policers: Total Used %Used
4096 1 1%
QoS Tcam Entries: Module Total Used %Used
1 16384 1171 7%
2 16384 1171 7%
3 16384 1171 7%
 
Router#
 

This example shows how to display information about the key system resources:

Router# show platform hardware capacity system
System Resources
PFC operating mode: PFC4
Supervisor redundancy mode: administratively sso, operationally sso
Switching resources: Module Part number Series CEF mode
6 VS-SUP2T-10G supervisor CEF
Router#
 

This example shows how to display VLAN information:

Router# show platform hardware capacity vlan
VLANs: 4094 total, 10 VTP, 0 extended, 0 internal, 4084 free
Router#

Module Status Monitoring

The supervisor engine polls the installed modules with Switch Communication Protocol (SCP) messages to monitor module status.

The SCP sends a message every two seconds to each module. Module nonresponse after 3 messages (6 seconds) is classified as a failure. CPU_MONITOR system messages are sent every 30 seconds. After 25 sequential failures (150 seconds), the supervisor engine power cycles the module and sends a CPU_MONITOR TIMED_OUT system message and OIR PWRCYCLE system messages.

Enabling Visual Identification of Modules or Ports

To make a module easy to identify visually, you can configure the blue ID LED (also called the blue beacon LED) on these modules to blink:

  • Supervisor Engine 2T-10GE
  • WS-X6908-10GE 10-Gigabit Ethernet switching module

This is the command to enable blinking on a module:

Router(config)# hw-module slot slot_number led beacon

This is the command to disable blinking on a module:

Router(config)# no hw-module slot slot_number led beacon

To make a port easy to identify visually, you can configure the link LED on these modules to blink:

  • Supervisor Engine 2T-10GE
  • WS-X6908-10GE 10-Gigabit Ethernet switching module

This is the command to enable blinking on a port:

Router(config-if)# led beacon

This is the command to disable blinking:

Router(config-if)# no led beacon

User Interfaces

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/snmp/configuration/15sy/snmp-15-sy-book.html

  • Cisco IOS web browser interface—See the HTTP Services Configuration Guide, Cisco IOS Release 15.1SY, at this URL:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/https/configuration/15-sy/https-15-sy-book.html

Software Features Supported in Hardware by the PFC and DFC

  • Access Control Lists (ACLs) for Layer 3 ports and VLAN interfaces:

Permit and deny actions of input and output standard and extended ACLs


Note Flows that require ACL logging are processed in software on the route processor (RP).


Except on MPLS interfaces, reflexive ACL flows after the first packet in a session is processed in software on the RP

Dynamic ACL flows


Note Idle timeout is processed in software on the RP.


For more information about PFC and DFC support for ACLs, see Chapter40, “Cisco IOS ACL Support”

Note the following information about hardware-assisted NAT:

The PFC and any DFCs do not support NAT of multicast traffic. ( CSCtd18777)

The PFC and any DFCs do not support NAT configured with a route-map that specifies length.

When you configure NAT and NDE on an interface, the RP processes all traffic in fragmented packets in software.

To prevent a significant volume of NAT traffic from being sent to the RP, due to either a DoS attack or a misconfiguration, enter the platform rate-limit unicast acl { ingress | egress } command.


Note The PFC and DFC do not provide hardware acceleration for tunnels configured with the tunnel key command.


  • IPv4 Multicast over point-to-point generic route encapsulation (GRE) Tunnels.
  • GRE Tunneling and IP in IP Tunneling—The PFC and DFC support the following tunnel commands:

tunnel destination

tunnel mode gre

tunnel mode ipip

tunnel source

tunnel ttl

tunnel tos

Other supported types of tunneling run in software.

The tunnel ttl command (default 255) sets the TTL of encapsulated packets.

The tunnel tos command, if present, sets the ToS byte of a packet when it is encapsulated. If the tunnel tos command is not present and QoS is not enabled, the ToS byte of a packet sets the ToS byte of the packet when it is encapsulated. If the tunnel tos command is not present and QoS is enabled, the ToS byte of a packet as modified by PFC QoS sets the ToS byte of the packet when it is encapsulated.

To configure GRE Tunneling and IP in IP Tunneling, see these publications:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/interface/configuration/15-sy/ir-impl-tun.html

To configure the tunnel tos and tunnel ttl commands, see this publication for more information:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_0s/feature/guide/12s_tos.html

Note the following information about tunnels:

The PFC4 and DFC4 support up to 8 multicast rendevous points (RP).

Each hardware-assisted tunnel must have a unique source. Hardware-assisted tunnels cannot share a source even if the destinations are different. Use secondary addresses on loopback interfaces or create multiple loopback interfaces. ( CSCdy72539)

Each tunnel interface uses one internal VLAN.

Each tunnel interface uses one additional router MAC address entry per router MAC address.

The PFC and DFC support PFC QoS features on tunnel interfaces.

Tunnels configured with egress features on the tunnel interface are supported in software. Examples of egress features are output Cisco IOS ACLs, NAT (for inside to outside translation), TCP intercept, and encryption.


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