topic RE: ICMP SIZE in ExtremeSwitching (EXOS/Switch Engine)

ICMP SIZE

Luis_Mendes — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 19:00:00 GMT

I Have many hosts on switch x460, and L3 interfaces, but no ping with packet size > 500 bytes, No ping interface and no ping between hosts

RE: ICMP SIZE

Stephen_Elliot1 — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 19:13:00 GMT

sounds like an MTU issue - "show ipconfig " - the default is 1500.

RE: ICMP SIZE

Luis_Mendes — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 19:13:00 GMT

Router Interface on ADM is enabled and up. inet 192.168.115.254/22 broadcast 192.168.115.255 Mtu 1500

I have 2 scenarios, with routing and L2-only, in both i have the same problem

ping with size 504 is maximum, between hosts or ping on interface of switch

RE: ICMP SIZE

Erik_Auerswald — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 19:24:00 GMT

Hello Luis,

a packet size of 500B is well inside the typical Ethernet frame data size (64B to 1500B). That should just work.

Did you check the GTAC Knowledge article How to enable inter-VLAN routing in EXOS? One important step is to enable ipforwarding after configuring the IP addresses.

You might want to verify that auto-negotiation is working:
show ports configuration no-refreshSpeed and duplex settings of switch and hosts need to match. Auto-negotiation is usually working fine, thus you should verify that all switch ports and hosts use it.

If you want to use IP packets larger than 1500B, then you need to enable Jumbo Frames on the switch, and configure an appropriate MTU on the IP interfaces:
enable jumbo-frame ports all configure ip-mtu SIZE vlan VLANNAME Best regards,
Erik

RE: ICMP SIZE

Luis_Mendes — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 19:45:00 GMT

I understand if i enable the jumbo frame the capacity of packet is increased to 9k, but i don´t have jumbo enabled on any other device or others switchs, if i had the same test with other switch (customer have hp), the PING works with 1024 and others size > 504 bytes.

I disable dos-protect. but the same .

Slot-1 ScDC1-Sw01.4 # show ports packet no-refreshPort Packet Statistics
Port Link Packet Sizes
State 0-64 65-127 128-255 256-511 512-1023 1024-1518 Jumbo
================================================================================
1:1 A 131308926 5716712 1192163 242340 409319 80876787 0
1:2 A 131310283 20250721 1192828 240568 405308 80878840 0

The packets > 504 bytes are passing, but why ping not???

Slot-1 ScDC1-Sw01.6 # show ports 1:1,1:2 informationPort Flags Link ELSM Link Num Num Num Jumbo QOS Load
State /OAM UPS STP VLAN Proto Size profile Master
=====================================================================================
1:1 Em------e--fMB---x- active - / - 1 1 1 1 1523 none
1:2 Em------e--fMB---x- active - / - 1 1 1 1 1523 none

RE: ICMP SIZE

Stephen_Elliot1 — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 20:01:00 GMT

"show ip-security anomaly" seems to default to a max payload of 512 bytes but is disabled by default?!

try a "disable ip-security anomaly-protection icmp" to see if that makes any difference?

RE: ICMP SIZE

Luis_Mendes — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 20:01:00 GMT

Thanks.. Works disable ip-security anomaly ping