The situation: A Cisco 7604 with SAMI card is able to send packets from the individual IOS instances running on the SAMI PPCs, but is unable to receive packets. The hardware: The table below describes the hardware involved. Part Number Description CISCO7604 Cisco 7604 Router SUP32-GE-3B Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series / Cisco 7600 Series Supervisor [...]

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This is a picture (larger) of a Cisco 7604 with Sup32 and SAMI card. The modules you see here are: Part Number Description CISCO7604 Cisco 7604 Router SUP32-GE-3B Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series / Cisco 7600 Series Supervisor Engine 32 with 8 ports Gigabit Ethernet, PFC3B, and MSFC2A WS-SVC-SAMI-BB-K9 Cisco Service and Application Module for IP [...]

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For some reason, they don’t make this completely obvious. login: admin password: admin

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I would hope there is a better way to do this. The other day, I had a need to see all the interfaces on a router and how much input and output traffic they were passing. This just seems like something that should be built in, but I’ve not seen it. So, this is what [...]

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This seems to be a pretty common problem for Cisco users. Not that Cisco devices have more queue drop problems, just that more Cisco users are a little confused by the information generated in the show interface command. Specifically, we’re talking about the lines that look something like this: Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output [...]

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