Chapter 14 Configuring Resilient Packet Ring on the ML-Series Card

Monitoring and Verifying RPR

Monitoring and Verifying RPR

After RPR is configured, you can monitor its status using the show interface spr 1 command (Example 14-4) or the show run interface spr 1 command (Example 14-5).

Example 14-4 Example of show interface spr 1 Output

ML-Series#show interfaces spr 1

SPR1 is up, line protocol is up

Hardware is POS-SPR, address is 0005.9a39.77f8 (bia 0000.0000.0000) MTU 1500 bytes, BW 290304 Kbit, DLY 100 usec,

reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255 Encapsulation: Cisco-EoS-LEX, loopback not set

Keepalive not set

DTR is pulsed for 27482 seconds on reset, Restart-Delay is 65 secs ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00

No. of active members in this SPR interface: 2 Member 0 : POS1

Member 1 : POS0

Last input 00:00:38, output never, output hang never

Last clearing of "show interface" counters never

Input queue: 0/150/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0

Queueing strategy: fifo

Output queue: 0/80 (size/max)

5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec

5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec

37385 packets input, 20993313 bytes Received 0 broadcasts (0 IP multicast)

0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles

0 parity

2 input errors, 2 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored 0 input packets with dribble condition detected

37454 packets output, 13183808 bytes, 0 underruns

0 output errors, 0 applique, 4 interface resets

0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred

0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier

0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out

0 carrier transitions

Example 14-5 Example of show run interface spr 1 Output

ML-Series#show run interface spr 1

Building configuration...

Current configuration : 141 bytes interface SPR1

no ip address no keepalive spr station-id 2 bridge-group 10

bridge-group 10 spanning-disabled hold-queue 150 in

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15310-CL, 15310-MA specifications

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