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November 29th, 2016 20:00

DELL N3024F - ARP[ipMapForwarding]

Hi ,

I am having issues with ARP broadcast from our network devices which has Failover virtual IP configured for 2 x physical NIC connection.

Our setup is 2 x DELL N3024F switch connect to 02 x DELL 6224F switch. Default VLAN 1.

a. DELL N3024F switch is not stacked, it has VRRP configured for L3 routing

b. DELL 6224F switch is stacked with port -channel Link Aggregation 

c. Port Gi1/0/2 on DELL N3024F SW-01 connect (RJ45) to 1/g1 on DELL 6224F SW-01

d. Port Gi1/0/2 on DELL N3024F SW-02 connect (RJ45) to 2/g1 on DELL 6224F SW-02

Logging message received sample:

Nov  xx 10:20:36 172.168.XX.XX-1 ARP[ipMapForwarding]: ipmap_arp_api.c(1149) 391233 %% Received ARP Reply on interface Vl1 with bad target IP address 255.255.255.255. Sender IP is 172.168.XX.XXX, sender MAC is 00:25:97:XX:XX:XX.

These messages flooded and caused DELL N3024F switch to disconnect interface Gi1/0/2 port from DELL 6224F switch. Everytime this happens to either DELL N3024F switch, I have to power reboot the affected switche to get the connection up again.

Am i missing some configuration not properly done for DELL N3224F switch?

DELL 6224F switch is not showing any errors for the same ARP broadcast, and most of the devices is connected to through it.

Thanks for your kind advice and support.

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November 30th, 2016 09:00

That’s right, it should stop it from sending ARP packets to a backup router. You do not need to enable portfast, portfast puts the ports into forwarding mode right away, rather than the normal learning process. Typically this is only enabled on edge devices that connect directly to client devices. 

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November 30th, 2016 09:00

Hi,

It is probably because the port channel is going to each of the VRRP switches, so some traffic is getting sent to the backup VRRP router. If you don’t have the port channel and just had individual links going to each switch it probably would not give the errors. 

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November 30th, 2016 09:00

Hi Josh,

Thanks for your advice.

I just need to disable the port channel link aggregation on DELL 6224F switch for the 2 ports connected to both of the DELL N3024F switch. Is this right?

Do I need to enable auto portfast on both DELL 6224F & N3024F switches?

Thanks for your kind support.

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December 1st, 2016 09:00

Hi Josh,

Thanks for your valuable advice and time.

I tried to configured the 2 ports on DELL 6224F which is connected to DELL N3024F switches.

But, I found that both ports is not member of any port-channel, although under #show interfaces configuration, the Link Aggregate is shown as Admin state - Up. 

console#show interfaces configuration

Port Type Duplex Speed Neg Admin
State
----- ------------------------------ ------ ------- ---- -----
1/g1 Gigabit - Level Full 1000 Auto Up
1/g2 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
1/g3 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
1/g4 Gigabit - Level Full 1000 Auto Up
1/g5 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
1/g6 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
1/g7 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
1/g8 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
1/g9 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
1/g10 Gigabit - Level Full 1000 Auto Up
1/g11 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
1/g12 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
1/g13 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
1/g14 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
1/g15 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
1/g16 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
1/g17 Gigabit - Level Full 1000 Auto Up
1/g18 Gigabit - Level Full 1000 Auto Up
1/g19 Gigabit - Level Full 1000 Auto Up
--More-- or (q)uit
1/g20 Gigabit - Level Full 1000 Auto Up
1/g21 Gigabit - Level Full 100 Auto Up
1/g22 Gigabit - Level Full 100 Auto Up
1/g23 Gigabit - Level Full 100 Auto Up
1/g24 Gigabit - Level Full 100 Auto Up
1/xg1 10G - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
1/xg2 10G - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
1/xg3 10G - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
1/xg4 10G - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
2/g1 Gigabit - Level Full 1000 Auto Up
2/g2 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
2/g3 Gigabit - Level Full 1000 Auto Up
2/g4 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
2/g5 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
2/g6 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
2/g7 Gigabit - Level Full 1000 Auto Up
2/g8 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
2/g9 Gigabit - Level Full 1000 Auto Up
2/g10 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
2/g11 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
2/g12 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
2/g13 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
2/g14 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
--More-- or (q)uit
2/g15 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
2/g16 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
2/g17 Gigabit - Level Full 1000 Auto Up
2/g18 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
2/g19 Gigabit - Level Full 1000 Auto Up
2/g20 Gigabit - Level Full 1000 Auto Up
2/g21 Gigabit - Level Full 100 Auto Up
2/g22 Gigabit - Level Full 100 Auto Up
2/g23 Gigabit - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
2/g24 Gigabit - Level Half 10 Auto Up
2/xg1 10G - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
2/xg2 10G - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
2/xg3 10G - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up
2/xg4 10G - Level N/A Unknown Auto Up


Ch Type Admin
State
--- ------------------------------ -----
ch1 Link Aggregate Up
ch2 Link Aggregate Up
ch3 Link Aggregate Up
ch4 Link Aggregate Up
--More-- or (q)uit
ch5 Link Aggregate Up
ch6 Link Aggregate Up
ch7 Link Aggregate Up
ch8 Link Aggregate Up
ch9 Link Aggregate Up
ch10 Link Aggregate Up
ch11 Link Aggregate Up
ch12 Link Aggregate Up
ch13 Link Aggregate Up
ch14 Link Aggregate Up
ch15 Link Aggregate Up
ch16 Link Aggregate Up
ch17 Link Aggregate Up
ch18 Link Aggregate Up
ch19 Link Aggregate Up
ch20 Link Aggregate Up
ch21 Link Aggregate Up
ch22 Link Aggregate Up
ch23 Link Aggregate Up
ch24 Link Aggregate Up
ch25 Link Aggregate Up
ch26 Link Aggregate Up
ch27 Link Aggregate Up
--More-- or (q)uit
ch28 Link Aggregate Up
ch29 Link Aggregate Up
ch30 Link Aggregate Up
ch31 Link Aggregate Up
ch32 Link Aggregate Up
ch33 Link Aggregate Up
ch34 Link Aggregate Up
ch35 Link Aggregate Up
ch36 Link Aggregate Up
ch37 Link Aggregate Up
ch38 Link Aggregate Up
ch39 Link Aggregate Up
ch40 Link Aggregate Up
ch41 Link Aggregate Up
ch42 Link Aggregate Up
ch43 Link Aggregate Up
ch44 Link Aggregate Up
ch45 Link Aggregate Up
ch46 Link Aggregate Up
ch47 Link Aggregate Up
ch48 Link Aggregate Up

Flow Control:Enabled

Here's the interface detail for 1/g1 & 2/g1:

console#show interfaces detail ethernet 1/g1

Port Type Duplex Speed Neg Admin Link
State State
----- ------------------------------ ------ ------- ---- ----- -----
1/g1 Gigabit - Level Full 1000 Auto Up Up


Port Description
---- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
1/g1

Flow Control:Enabled
Port: 1/g1
VLAN Membership mode:Access Mode

Operating parameters:
PVID: 1
Ingress Filtering: Enabled
Acceptable Frame Type: Untagged
Default Priority: 0
GVRP status:Disabled
Protected:Disabled

--More-- or (q)uit
Port 1/g1 is member in:

VLAN Name Egress rule Type
---- --------------------------------- ----------- --------
1 Default Untagged Default

Static configuration:
PVID: 1
Ingress Filtering: Enabled
Acceptable Frame Type: Untagged

Port 1/g1 is statically configured to:

VLAN Name Egress rule
---- --------------------------------- -----------

Forbidden VLANS:
VLAN Name
---- ---------------------------------


Port 1/g1 Enabled
State: Forwarding Role: Designated
--More-- or (q)uit
Port id: 128.1 Port Cost: 20000
Port Fast: No (Configured: no ) Root Protection: No
Designated bridge Priority: 32768 Address: 80:00:5C:26:0A:FB:B5:9D
Designated port id: 128.1 Designated path cost: 40000
CST Regional Root: 80:00:5C:26:0A:FB:B5:9D CST Port Cost: 0
BPDU: sent 1107868, received 133


console#show interfaces detail ethernet 2/g1

Port Type Duplex Speed Neg Admin Link
State State
----- ------------------------------ ------ ------- ---- ----- -----
2/g1 Gigabit - Level Full 1000 Auto Up Up


Port Description
---- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
2/g1

Flow Control:Enabled
Port: 2/g1
VLAN Membership mode:Access Mode

Operating parameters:
PVID: 1
Ingress Filtering: Enabled
Acceptable Frame Type: Untagged
Default Priority: 0
GVRP status:Disabled
Protected:Disabled

--More-- or (q)uit
Port 2/g1 is member in:

VLAN Name Egress rule Type
---- --------------------------------- ----------- --------
1 Default Untagged Default

Static configuration:
PVID: 1
Ingress Filtering: Enabled
Acceptable Frame Type: Untagged

Port 2/g1 is statically configured to:

VLAN Name Egress rule
---- --------------------------------- -----------

Forbidden VLANS:
VLAN Name
---- ---------------------------------


Port 2/g1 Enabled
State: Forwarding Role: Designated
--More-- or (q)uit
Port id: 128.53 Port Cost: 20000
Port Fast: No (Configured: no ) Root Protection: No
Designated bridge Priority: 32768 Address: 80:00:5C:26:0A:FB:B5:9D
Designated port id: 128.53 Designated path cost: 40000
CST Regional Root: 80:00:5C:26:0A:FB:B5:9D CST Port Cost: 0
BPDU: sent 804242, received 82

Next, I did a #show spanning-tree port-channel detail, the results for the 2 ports as follow:

Spanning tree Enabled (BPDU flooding : Disabled) Portfast BPDU filtering Disabled mode rstp
CST Regional Root: 80:00:5C:26:0A:FB:B5:9D
Regional Root Path Cost: 0
ROOT ID
Address 00:0A:DC:6D:43:40
Path Cost 40000
Root Port 1/g19
Hello Time 2 Sec Max Age 20 sec Forward Delay 15 sec
Bridge ID
Priority 32768
Address 80:00:5C:26:0A:FB:B5:9D
Hello Time 2 Sec Max Age 20 sec Forward Delay 15 sec

Number of topology changes 4694 last change occurred 0d2h17m49s ago
Times: hold 6, hello 2, max age 20, forward delay 15

Port 1/g1 Enabled
State: Forwarding Role: Designated
Port id: 128.1 Port Cost: 20000
Port Fast: No (Configured: no ) Root Protection: No
Designated bridge Priority: 32768 Address: 5C:26:0A:FB:B5:9D
Designated port id: 128.1 External path cost: 20000
CST Regional Root: 80:00:5C:26:0A:FB:B5:9D CST Port Cost: 0
--More-- or (q)uit
BPDU: sent 1108017, received 133

Port 2/g1 Enabled
State: Forwarding Role: Designated
Port id: 128.53 Port Cost: 20000
Port Fast: No (Configured: no ) Root Protection: No
Designated bridge Priority: 32768 Address: 5C:26:0A:FB:B5:9D
Designated port id: 128.53 External path cost: 20000
CST Regional Root: 80:00:5C:26:0A:FB:B5:9D CST Port Cost: 0
BPDU: sent 804408, received 82

Last, I did a #show tech-support

from the "Show Isdp Neighbors", it knows of the N3204F switch as follow:

***************** Show Isdp Neighbors *****************

Capability Codes: R - Router, T - Trans Bridge, B - Source Route Bridge,
S - Switch, H - Host, I - IGMP, r - Repeater
Device ID Intf Holdtime Capability Platform Port ID
---------------------- ------- --------- ------------ -------------------- ----------------------
CN0WKWF42829859G0004A0 1/g1 171 R N3024F Gi1/0/2
CN0FN848282982390047A1 1/g17 173 R PCT6224F 1/0/17
CN0FN8482829829H0024A1 1/g18 172 R PCT6224F 1/0/16
CN0FN848282982390040A1 1/g19 153 R PCT6224F 1/0/12
CN0FN848282982390026A1 1/g20 160 R PCT6224F 1/0/13
CN0WKWF4282985AA0044A0 2/g1 149 R N3024F Gi1/0/2
CN0FN848282982390039A1 2/g17 173 R PCT6224F 1/0/17
CN0FN848282982390027A1 2/g19 175 R PCT6224F 1/0/12
CN0FN848282982390050A1 2/g20 177 R PCT6224F 1/0/13

Sorry for my limited knowledge of the proper CLI  and configuration for L3 managed switches; 

How do I proceed to configure the 2 specific ports for connection to 2 x N3024F switch (VRRP routing enabled)?

I need to resolve this problem as its giving me nightmares whenever the 2 port is disabled.

The DELL 6224F switch was not configured by me as it was done by a previous vendor.

The 2 x new DELL N3024F switches is added to support new windows 2012 servers and network data concentrators.

From 1 of the N3024F switch config:

No Configured Ports for Port-channel

 ***************** Show Storm-control *****************

802.3x Flow Control Mode....................... Enable

        Bcast Bcast Mcast Mcast Ucast Ucast Flow
Port Mode Level Mode Level Mode Level Ctrl
---------- -------- --------- -------- --------- -------- --------- ----------
Gi1/0/1 Disable 5 Disable 5 Disable 5 Enabled
Gi1/0/2 Disable 5 Disable 5 Disable 5 Enabled

***************** Show PVST/RPVST Summary *****************
Neither PVST nor Rapid-PVST is enabled

***************** Show Spanning-tree *****************
Spanning Tree: Enabled - BPDU Flooding: Disabled - Portfast BPDU Filtering: Disabled
Mode: rstp
CST Regional Root: 80:00:F8:B1:56:97:67:12
Regional Root Path Cost: 0
ROOT ID
Priority 32768
Address 000A.DC6D.4340
Path Cost 60000
Root Port Gi1/0/2
Hello Time: 2s Max Age: 20s Forward Delay: 15s Transmit Hold Count: 6s
Bridge Max Hops: 20
Bridge ID
Priority 32768
Address F8B1.5697.6712
Hello Time: 2s Max Age: 20s Forward Delay: 15s
Interfaces

Name State Prio.Nbr Cost Sts Role Restricted
--------- -------- --------- --------- ---- ----- ----------
Gi1/0/1 Enabled 128.1 0 DIS Disb No
Gi1/0/2 Enabled 128.2 20000 FWD Root No

***************** Show Isdp Neighbors *****************

Capability Codes: R - Router, T - Trans Bridge, B - Source Route Bridge,
S - Switch, H - Host, I - IGMP, r - Repeater
Device ID Intf Holdtime Capability Platform Port ID
------------------------ --------- --------- ---------- ---------------- ---------
CN0FN848282982390042A16 Gi1/0/2 175 R PCT6224F 2/0/1


***************** Show Lldp Remote-device All ***********

LLDP Remote Device Summary

Local
Interface RemID Chassis ID Port ID System Name
--------- ------- ------------------- ----------------- -----------------
Gi1/0/2 1 5C:26:0A:FB:B5:9D 2/0/1

Thanks for your kind support and assistance.

Regards,

George

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December 1st, 2016 10:00

Can you post the VRRP config from the N3024s? Is it always the same port that gets disabled? The ARP request is getting sent to 255.255.255.255 which is what happens when it doesn’t know where to send the packet. Is the default gateway on the 6224s set to the IP of the VRRP IP?

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December 1st, 2016 14:00

Hi Josh,

Thanks for your kind assistance.

Here's the configuration of the DELL N3024F switch:

***************** Show Running Config ***********

!Current Configuration:
!Software Capability "ACCESS ROUTER"
!Image File "N3000_N2000v6.3.0.9"
!System Description "Dell Networking N3024F, 6.3.0.9, Linux 3.6.5-7dc37651"
!System Software Version 6.3.0.9
!
configure
vlan 4
exit
slot 1/0 2    ! Dell Networking N3024F
sntp unicast client enable
sntp server "pool.ntp.org" priority 3
stack
member 1 2    ! N3024F
exit
logging console errors
ip routing
interface vlan 1
ip address 172.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
exit
interface vlan 4
ip address 172.168.4.1 255.255.255.0
exit
ip vrrp
application install hiveagent start-on-boot
!
interface Gi1/0/1
switchport mode trunk
exit
!
interface Gi1/0/2
no spanning-tree auto-portfast
exit
interface vlan 1
vrrp 1
vrrp 1 mode
vrrp 1 ip 172.168.1.254
exit
interface vlan 4
vrrp 4
vrrp 4 mode
vrrp 4 ip 172.168.4.254
exit
snmp-server engineid local 800002a203f8b156976712
exit

 

Regards,

George

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December 1st, 2016 15:00

Hi Josh,

I just confirmed that all my devices is configured with gateway: 172.168.1.254.

All my new server has 2 NIC configured for teaming, switch independent / dynamic mode.

All my new data concentrators has 2 physical Ethernet port for team bonding.

The ARP messages is from all my data concentrators virtual IP (Hot / Warm IP).

I have configured gateway as 172.168.1.254 for both the physical & virtual interface.

1 additional question:

The VRRP IP: 172.168.1.254 & 172.168.4.254 does not respond to PING request, is this normal?

Both the vlan interface IP do respond to PING request from network devices.

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George

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December 1st, 2016 17:00

By default it is not pingable page 1885 

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December 1st, 2016 22:00

Hi Josh,

The ARP error message is still in progress even after I confirm that all device gateway is configured to 172.168.1.254, same as our VRRP IP address.

What could be the issues if ARP is still broadcasting to 255.255.255.255?

Could this be an device problem? Does my configuration  for DELL N3024F or 6224F need to modified to resolve the issues?

Thanks for your kind advice and understanding.

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December 2nd, 2016 10:00

Have you tried disconnecting the cable or shutting down the port to the second switch to see  if the errors stop?

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December 2nd, 2016 10:00

Hi Josh,

I did not tried to remove the cable for the 2nd switch.

I do have another DELL N3024F switch in another rack that has a pair of the data concentrator connected direct to it. This switch is stack with a DELL N3024 switch via a pair of stacking cables.

There's no VRRP configuration, it is configured for separate VLAN 4 on subnet 172.168.4.xxx / 255.255.255.0

Data concentrator HOT IP (Virtual): 172.168.4.4, Warm IP (Virtual): 172.168.4.5.

Data concentrator physical port-1 IP - 172.168.4.2

Data concentrator physical port-2 IP - 172.168.4.3

I found the same log messages from the console:

<188> Dec  2 18:42:27 172.168.4.251-1 ARP[ipMapForwarding]: ipmap_arp_api.c(1149) 596144 %% Received ARP Reply on interface Vl4 with bad target IP address 255.255.255.255. Sender IP is 172.168.4.4, sender MAC is 00:25:97:00:a9:b9.

<188> Dec  2 18:42:29 172.168.4.251-1 ARP[ipMapForwarding]: ipmap_arp_api.c(1149) 596145 %% Received ARP Reply on interface Vl4 with bad target IP address 255.255.255.255. Sender IP is 172.168.4.5, sender MAC is 00:25:97:00:a3:9d.

Here's the show ARP and MAC Address information from #show tech-support:

 ***************** Show PVST/RPVST Summary *****************
Neither PVST nor Rapid-PVST is enabled

 ***************** Show Arp *****************
             
Static ARP entries are only active
when the IP address is reachable on a local subnet


Age Time (seconds)............................. 1200
Response Time (seconds)........................ 1
Retries........................................ 4
Cache Size..................................... 6144
Dynamic Renew Mode ............................ Enable
Total Entry Count Current / Peak .............. 1 / 1
Static Entry Count Configured / Active / Max .. 0 / 0 / 128

IP Address       MAC Address        Interface       Type      Age
---------------  -----------------  --------------  --------  -----------
172.168.4.251    F8B1.5697.66F1     Vl4             Local         n/a

 ***************** Show Mac Address Table *****************

Aging time is 300 Sec

Vlan     Mac Address           Type        Port
-------- --------------------- ----------- ---------------------
--More-- or (q)uit                  1        F8B1.5697.66F1        Management  Vl1
4        0011.B400.9FDA        Dynamic     Gi2/0/20
4        0018.6405.05CC        Dynamic     Gi2/0/4
4        0018.6405.0658        Dynamic     Gi2/0/4
4        0025.9700.A39D        Dynamic     Gi1/0/20
4        0025.9700.A9B9        Dynamic     Gi1/0/19
4        0030.6426.7FA4        Dynamic     Gi2/0/12
4        0040.9D6D.4A83        Dynamic     Gi2/0/8
4        0040.9D6D.4AD5        Dynamic     Gi2/0/6
4        0040.9D6D.4B13        Dynamic     Gi2/0/13
4        0040.9D6D.4B18        Dynamic     Gi2/0/9
4        00D0.C9F6.B676        Dynamic     Gi2/0/4
4        00D0.C9F6.B693        Dynamic     Gi2/0/4
4        F8B1.5697.66F1        Management  Vl4

Total MAC Addresses in use: 14

Hope the above information is helpful in resolving this issues.

Regards,

George

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December 2nd, 2016 13:00

Well if it is doing it even without VRRP something else is causing the ARP requests to broadcast.  This might have some things to try en.community.dell.com/.../19629574

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December 6th, 2016 08:00

Hi Josh,

The suggested link do not applied to our situation, our data concentrator devices does not require PoE.

Therefore we have not enabled any PoE option within N3024F, is it enabled by default? I could not find any options that enable PoE from the console config.

Looking at the logs, I found the following within Trap log:

3 Dec  1 03:30:24 2016     Spanning Tree Topology Change Received: MSTID:
                             0 Gi1/0/2
  4 Dec  1 02:17:49 2016     Spanning Tree Topology Change Received: MSTID:
                             0 Gi1/0/2

DELL N3024F

console#show spanning-tree detail

Spanning Tree: Enabled    (BPDU Flooding: Disabled)
Mode: Portfast BPDU Filtering: Disabled
CST Regional Root:        80:00:F8:B1:56:97:67:12
Regional Root Path Cost:  0
ROOT ID
              Address         80:00:00:0A:DC:6D:43:40
              Path Cost       60000
              Root Port       Gi1/0/2
              Hello Time: 2s Max Age: 20s Forward Delay: 15s Transmit Hold Count: 6s
              Bridge Max Hops: 20
Bridge ID
              Priority        32768
              Address         80:00:F8:B1:56:97:67:12
              Hello Time: 2s Max Age: 20s Forward Delay: 15s

Number of topology changes: 1 Last Change Occurred: 0d20h40m10s ago
Times: Hold: 6, Hello: 2, Max Age: 20, Forward Delay: 15

Port: Gi1/0/1 Enabled
State: Disabled                                  Role: Disabled
Port ID: 128.1                                   Port Cost: 0
Root Protection: No
--More-- or (q)uit                  Designated Bridge Priority: 32768                Address: F8B1.5697.6712
Designated Port ID: 0.0                          Designated Path Cost: 0
CST Regional Root: 80:00:F8:B1:56:97:67:12       CST Port Cost: 0
BPDUs: Sent: 0, Received: 0

Port: Gi1/0/2 Enabled
State: Forwarding                                Role: Root
Port ID: 128.2                                   Port Cost: 20000
Root Protection: No
Designated Bridge Priority: 32768                Address: 5C26.0AFB.B59D
Designated Port ID: 128.53                       Designated Path Cost: 40000
CST Regional Root: 80:00:5C:26:0A:FB:B5:9D       CST Port Cost: 0
BPDUs: Sent: 69, Received: 37228

Could it be the amount of BPDUs recived in DELL N3024F (Gi1/0/2) from DELL 6224F (1/g1) that caused this issue?

DELL 6224F

console#show spanning-tree port-channel detail
Spanning tree Enabled (BPDU flooding : Disabled) Portfast BPDU filtering  Disabled mode rstp
CST Regional Root:        80:00:5C:26:0A:FB:B5:9D
Regional Root Path Cost:  0
ROOT ID
              Address         00:0A:DC:6D:43:40
              Path Cost       40000
              Root Port      1/g19  
              Hello Time 2 Sec Max Age 20 sec Forward Delay 15 sec
Bridge ID
              Priority        32768
              Address         80:00:5C:26:0A:FB:B5:9D
              Hello Time 2 Sec Max Age 20 sec Forward Delay 15 sec

Number of topology changes 4694 last change occurred 0d2h17m49s ago
Times: hold 6, hello 2, max age 20, forward delay 15

Port 1/g1    Enabled
State: Forwarding                                Role: Designated
Port id: 128.1                                   Port Cost: 20000
Port Fast:  No (Configured: no )                 Root Protection: No  
Designated bridge Priority: 32768                Address: 5C:26:0A:FB:B5:9D
Designated port id: 128.1                        External path cost: 20000
CST Regional Root: 80:00:5C:26:0A:FB:B5:9D       CST Port Cost: 0
BPDU: sent 1108017, received 133

Thanks for your valuable advice and kind assistance.

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December 6th, 2016 09:00

Number of topology changes 4694 last change occurred 0d2h17m49s ago

 

That seems like a high number. You could try enabling bpdu guard or changing the spanning tree settings. 

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December 7th, 2016 10:00

Hi Josh,

After looking through the switch logs which show a lot of STP topology changes for port Gi1/0/2 on N3024F;

 1 Dec  1 03:30:28 2016     Spanning Tree Topology Change Received: MSTID: 0 Gi1/0/2

I think the DELL N3024F switch is disabling the Gi1/0/2 because of STP topology, do this indicate looping in our network?

It seem that none of the 4 switches is the Root switch as both Bridge ID & Root ID do not match.

Please note that both the DELL 6224F switch is stacked:

Management Standby   Preconfig     Plugged-in    Switch        Code  
SW  Status     Status    Model ID      Model ID      Status        Version
--- ---------- --------- ------------- ------------- ------------- -----------
1   Stack Mbr  Oper Stby PCT6224F      PCT6224F      OK            3.3.1.10   
2   Mgmt Sw              PCT6224F      PCT6224F      OK            3.3.1.10   

a. Port Gi1/0/2 (N3024F -SW01) connected to port 1/g1 (6224F-Stacked)

b. Port Gi1/0/2 (N3024F -SW2) connected to port 2/g1 (6224F-Stacked)

Q1: Do I need to configured N3024-SW1 (VRRP primary) as primary  Root switch by changing the Designated Bridge Priority values to 4096? And follow by N3024F-SW2 (VRRP secondary)as secondary Root switch - change Designated Bridge Priority values to 8192?

Q2: Is 'CST Regional Root: 80:00:F8:B1:56:94:D6:54' the current Root switch's MAC address?

Here is the Show Spanning-Tree results from the  switches:

DELL N3024F - 01
console#show spanning-tree

Spanning Tree: Enabled    (BPDU Flooding: Disabled)
Mode: Portfast BPDU Filtering: Disabled
CST Regional Root:        80:00:F8:B1:56:97:67:12
Regional Root Path Cost:  0
ROOT ID
              Address         80:00:00:0A:DC:6D:43:40
              Path Cost       60000
              Root Port       Gi1/0/2
              Hello Time: 2s Max Age: 20s Forward Delay: 15s Transmit Hold Count: 6s
              Bridge Max Hops: 20
Bridge ID
              Priority        32768
              Address         80:00:F8:B1:56:97:67:12
              Hello Time: 2s Max Age: 20s Forward Delay: 15s

Number of topology changes: 1 Last Change Occurred: 0d20h40m10s ago
Times: Hold: 6, Hello: 2, Max Age: 20, Forward Delay: 15

Port: Gi1/0/2 Enabled
State: Forwarding                                Role: Root
Port ID: 128.2                                   Port Cost: 20000
Root Protection: No
Designated Bridge Priority: 32768                Address: 5C26.0AFB.B59D
Designated Port ID: 128.53                       Designated Path Cost: 40000
CST Regional Root: 80:00:5C:26:0A:FB:B5:9D       CST Port Cost: 0
BPDUs: Sent: 69, Received: 37228


DELL N3024F – 02
console#show spanning-tree

Spanning Tree: Enabled    (BPDU Flooding: Disabled)
Mode: Portfast BPDU Filtering: Disabled
CST Regional Root:        80:00:F8:B1:56:94:D6:54
Regional Root Path Cost:  0
ROOT ID
              Address         80:00:00:0A:DC:6D:43:40
              Path Cost       60000
              Root Port       Gi1/0/2
              Hello Time: 2s Max Age: 20s Forward Delay: 15s Transmit Hold Count: 6s
              Bridge Max Hops: 20
Bridge ID
              Priority        32768
              Address         80:00:F8:B1:56:94:D6:54
              Hello Time: 2s Max Age: 20s Forward Delay: 15s

Number of topology changes: 2 Last Change Occurred: 0d8h45m24s ago
Times: Hold: 6, Hello: 2, Max Age: 20, Forward Delay: 15

Port: Gi1/0/2 Enabled
State: Forwarding                                Role: Root
Port ID: 128.2                                   Port Cost: 20000
Root Protection: No
Designated Bridge Priority: 32768                Address: 5C26.0AFB.B59D
Designated Port ID: 128.1                        Designated Path Cost: 40000
CST Regional Root: 80:00:5C:26:0A:FB:B5:9D       CST Port Cost: 0
BPDUs: Sent: 10, Received: 36910


DELL 6224F
console#show spanning-tree port-channel detail

Spanning tree Enabled (BPDU flooding : Disabled) Portfast BPDU filtering  Disabled mode rstp
CST Regional Root:        80:00:5C:26:0A:FB:B5:9D
Regional Root Path Cost:  0
ROOT ID
              Address         00:0A:DC:6D:43:40
              Path Cost       40000
              Root Port      1/g19  
              Hello Time 2 Sec Max Age 20 sec Forward Delay 15 sec
Bridge ID
              Priority        32768
              Address         80:00:5C:26:0A:FB:B5:9D
              Hello Time 2 Sec Max Age 20 sec Forward Delay 15 sec

Number of topology changes 4694 last change occurred 0d2h17m49s ago
Times: hold 6, hello 2, max age 20, forward delay 15

Port 1/g1    Enabled
State: Forwarding                                Role: Designated
Port id: 128.1                                   Port Cost: 20000
Port Fast:  No (Configured: no )                 Root Protection: No  
Designated bridge Priority: 32768                Address: 5C:26:0A:FB:B5:9D
Designated port id: 128.1                        External path cost: 20000
CST Regional Root: 80:00:5C:26:0A:FB:B5:9D       CST Port Cost: 0
--More-- or (q)uit
BPDU: sent 1108017, received 133   

Port 2/g1    Enabled
State: Forwarding                                Role: Designated
Port id: 128.53                                  Port Cost: 20000
Port Fast:  No (Configured: no )                 Root Protection: No  
Designated bridge Priority: 32768                Address: 5C:26:0A:FB:B5:9D
Designated port id: 128.53                       External path cost: 20000
CST Regional Root: 80:00:5C:26:0A:FB:B5:9D       CST Port Cost: 0
BPDU: sent 804408, received 82  

Thanks for your kind support and understanding.


George

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