S-Series Packet-Loss

[Eisi1]

Hello,

I have some problems with Packet-Loss at a S-Series switch/router. Every day I get  "SNMP Contact Lost" in Netsight for some switches. I have found a device, which is dropping the SNMP-packets (requests). With “debug packet” at this device I get this:

Jan 26 13:41:00 X.X.5.91 DbgIpPkt[2][424],  RECEIVE:   ingress on port lag.0.1, vr global, vlan.0.1, Matched ipv4 acl 110, rule[1: permit ip host X.X.4.8 host X.X.5.237],  FATE:      Forwarding discontinued, cause: NTP_DEFER, vlan.0.4, vr global, nexthop X.X.5.237, flow disallowed,  PKT-ORIG:  InPort(lag.0.1) LEN(114) DA(20:B3:99:9B:67:33) SA(00:0C:29:A9:14:87) C-TAG(8100:0001) ETYPE(0800) SIP(X.X.4.8) DIP(X.X.5.237) VER(4) HLEN(5) TOTALLEN(92) PROTO(17) TOS(0) TTL(64) UDP_DST(161) UDP_SRC(59214)

Now I need to know what “Forwarding discontinued, cause: NTP_DEFER” means in detail and what is the reason for it?

I was not able to find any time-related error in Netsight-server and S-Series switch/router.

[SamPirok]

Hi Eisi, that message is letting you know the packet wasn’t forwarded, and it wasn’t forwarded because it’s a CPU packet for NTP and didn’t need to be forwarded. The most likely cause for that message is high CPU, but that likely isn’t impacting your packet loss issue.