Antwort: Re: [flow-tools] Cat6500 and Netflow

Shane Dawalt shane.dawalt at wright.edu
Fri Sep 2 09:27:22 EDT 2005


  This chassis is running hybrid-mode, so it's running CatOS 7.6(12) on 
the sup2 and IOS 12.1(13)E6 on the MSFC2.

  As far as drops are concerned, I don't think there is a correlation 
between up-time and the drops.  I think it must be something odd in our 
traffic pattern.

  I ran flow-header across all flow files and grep'd on "lost flows".  
This provided a list showing the dropped flows occur during a single 
5-minute window every 20 minutes.  I can't think what would be doing 
this (network-wise), but I think it points to network traffic.  Either 
that or the ageout algorithm in the switch isn't working right (and I 
cannot believe that).

  Shane


Sven.Butzek at bahn.de wrote:

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>Hello,
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>two Questions about the Netflow problem?
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>Which IOS do you run, and do you notice that whith increased uptime there
>are more flows lost?
>
>Sven
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>Shane Dawalt wrote:
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>> Well, these sup2 are about 2 years old now.  <sigh>
>>
>> I have the ip fast aging setting down as low as it will go (32).  My
>>guess is that reducing the ip long-duration aging setting probably won't
>>do much good.  I guess I could probably apply a filter.  (Gee, I guess
>>that means if I change to a full-flow mask, I will probably start
>>dropping lots of flows.)
>>
>> Shane
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>seems likely enough.  netflow on internet mix traffic on anything other
>than a sup720-3bxl is not recommended, and even then, it seems prudent
>not to recommend it if you were billing on that traffic.
>
>the other problem is that on the software that's out there now for all
>sups, and likely 'always' on the sup720-3a/sup2, you can't disable flow
>tcam population for specific interfaces, i.e., it's on all the time.
>
>So, if you have a lot of IP interfaces on the box, and you only care
>about netflow'ing one (or two) of them, you can't prune the amount of
>stuff ending up in the netflow tcam, further exaserbating the problem.
>
>e.g., I have no 'ip route-cache flow' or 'ip flow ingress' anywhere on
>my 7609-sup720 (pfc3a), but i get flow stats (though not packet size
>dist or flow switching cache stats, since that's 'disabled').
>
>crusty#sh ip cach fl
>IP packet size distribution (0 total packets):
>    1-32   64   96  128  160  192  224  256  288  320  352  384  416
>448  480
>    .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000
>.000 .000
>
>     512  544  576 1024 1536 2048 2560 3072 3584 4096 4608
>    .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000
>
>IP Flow Switching Cache, 0 bytes
>   0 active, 0 inactive, 0 added
>   0 ager polls, 0 flow alloc failures
>   Active flows timeout in 30 minutes
>   Inactive flows timeout in 15 seconds
>   last clearing of statistics never
>Protocol         Total    Flows   Packets Bytes  Packets Active(Sec)
>Idle(Sec)
>--------         Flows     /Sec     /Flow  /Pkt     /Sec     /Flow
>/Flow
>
>SrcIf         SrcIPaddress    DstIf         DstIPaddress    Pr SrcP DstP
>  Pkts
>
>Displaying Hardware entries in Module 1
>  SrcIf            SrcIPaddress          DstIPaddress      Pr       SrcP
>      DstP      Pkts
>  Vl179            220.130.39.237        220.101.4.220     tcp      3393
>      135       3
>  Vl179            24.207.193.248        131.244.3.55      tcp      2053
>      smtp      3
>  Vl179            203.103.165.70        202.44.98.24      udp
>58940     dns       1
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