Description

The Interface Statistics is not incrementing and is stuck with the values 0 for interfaces associated with the MPC10E card

Symptoms

You can see the following scenario wherein the interfaces are stuck at value 0 and not incrementing, in spite of active traffic passing from the router.


Physical interface: et-4/0/2, Enabled, Physical link is Up

 Interface index: 281, SNMP ifIndex: 784, Generation: 284

 Description: MX480et-4/0/2

 Link-level type: Ethernet, MTU: 9192, MRU: 9200, Speed: 100Gbps, BPDU Error: None, Loop Detect PDU Error: None, Ethernet-Switching Error: None, Loopback: Disabled, Source filtering: Disabled, Flow control: Disabled

 Pad to minimum frame size: Disabled

 Device flags  : Present Running

 Interface Specific flags: Internal: 0x100200

 Interface flags: SNMP-Traps Internal: 0x4000

 Link flags   : None

 CoS queues   : 8 supported, 8 maximum usable queues

 Schedulers   : 0

 Hold-times   : Up 0 ms, Down 0 ms

 Damping    : half-life: 0 sec, max-suppress: 0 sec, reuse: 0, suppress: 0, state: unsuppressed

 Current address: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:84, Hardware address: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:3f

 Last flapped  : 2025-09-26 01:33:41 CEST (2w0d 07:44 ago)

 Statistics last cleared: 2025-10-09 08:28:39 CEST (1d 00:49 ago)

 Traffic statistics:

  Input bytes :          0          0 bps

  Output bytes :          0          0 bps

  Input packets:          0          0 pps

  Output packets:          0          0 pps

  IPv6 transit statistics:

  Input bytes :          0          0 bps

  Output bytes :          0          0 bps

  Input packets:          0          0 pps

  Output packets:          0          0 pps

 Dropped traffic statistics due to STP State:

  Input bytes :          0

  Output bytes :          0

  Input packets:          0

  Output packets:          0

 Input errors:

  Errors: 0, Drops: 0, Framing errors: 0, Runts: 0, Policed discards: 0, L3 incompletes: 0, L2 channel errors: 0, L2 mismatch timeouts: 0, FIFO errors: 0, Resource errors: 0

 Output errors:

  Carrier transitions: 0, Errors: 0, Drops: 0, Collisions: 0, Aged packets: 0, FIFO errors: 0, HS link CRC errors: 0, MTU errors: 0, Resource errors: 0

 Egress queues: 8 supported, 4 in use

 Queue counters:    Queued packets Transmitted packets   Dropped packets

  0                0          0          0

  1                0          0          0

  2                0          0          0

  3                0          0          0

 Queue number:     Mapped forwarding classes

  0          best-effort

  1          expedited-forwarding

  2          assured-forwarding

  3          network-control


There is no other issue with the interface and the traffic is flowing as expected, Its just that these counters are not incrementing.

Solution

To resolve the issue, manually modify the register within the PFE. The following PFE-level commands must be executed under the MW session.

 

start shell user root

vty fpcX.0

bringup jspec write ztchip[X] register hostsys hostif hifregs msi_interval 0x2  (can be done after #reboot to prevent hitting the problem)

bringup jspec write ztchip[X] register hostsys hostif hif_global_regs local_mem sram 5120 1 (required after hitting the problem to recover) 


 

If the above command does not resolve the issue, the customer should refer to the PR outlined below to perform the appropriate recovery process.

https://prsearch.juniper.net/#!/search?page=prcontent&id=PR1882845

 

 

Modification History

2025-10-31 : Article Created