Description

The fabric fault management functionality involves monitoring all high-speed links connected to the fabric and the ones within the fabric core for link failures and link errors. This document explains about Fabric Input/Output packet counter limitation.

Solution

Fabric Input/ Output packet count is only supported on MX series devices.

The command " show-pfe-statistics-traffic " displays the PFE traffic statistics on EX, PTX, MX, TX Matrix, and TX Matrix plus routers.

While the command is valid over the above-mentioned product series, information about Fabric input and output packet counter cannot be obtained on all devices. This privilege only lies with MX device were in packet rate in and out of the fabric is counted and the count keeps incrementing as and when a packet traverses through the MX-Fabric.

Examples

MX- Series Device:

user@host> show pfe statistics traffic 
Packet Forwarding Engine traffic statistics:
    Input  packets:              1404613                    2 pps
    Output packets:                    1                    0 pps
    Fabric Input  :            5696292252                 4064 pps 
    Fabric Output :            5696292252                 4064 pps 

Note: Here, the first column of values indicate packet count and the second column indicate the packet rate

After 2 minutes,

user@host> show pfe statistics traffic 
Packet Forwarding Engine traffic statistics:
    Input  packets:              1404613                    2 pps
    Output packets:                    1                    0 pps
     Fabric Input  :            8276292493                 4031 pps  <-- Increment in fabric packet count
    Fabric Output :            8276292493                 4032 pps 
 

EX Series Device:

{master:0}
user@host> show pfe statistics traffic 
Packet Forwarding Engine traffic statistics:
    Input  packets:                22775                    0 pps
    Output packets:                22803                    0 pps
    Fabric Input  :                    0                    0 pps  <-- Always remains "0"
    Fabric Output :                    0                    0 pps 
 

PTX Series Device

user@host> show pfe statistics traffic 
Packet Forwarding Engine traffic statistics:
    Input  packets:          21766202082               135223 pps
    Output packets:          27486034622               171995 pps
    Fabric Input  :                    0                    0 pps   <-- Always remains "0"                      
    Fabric Output :                    0                    0 pps 

Note: The Fabric In/Out packet also increments the counter for internal chassis interactions (Ex: Self ping and liveliness detection), since these involve FPC interaction with the fabric.

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