Cabletron Systems SmartSwitch Router User manual

SmartSwitch Router
Error Reference Manual
9032565

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This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC rules. Operation is subject to the following two
conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any
interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.
NOTE: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital
device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection
against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment. This
equipment uses, generates, and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed in accordance
with the operator’s manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. Operation of this
equipment in a residential area is likely to cause interference in which case the user will be required to
correct the interference at his own expense.
WARNING: Changes or modifications made to this device which are not expressly approved by the
party responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to operate the equipment.
VCCI Notice
This is a Class A product based on the standard of the Voluntary Control Council for Interference by
Information Technology Equipment (VCCI). If this equipment is used in a domestic environment, radio
disturbance may arise. When such trouble occurs, the user may be required to take corrective actions.
DOC Notice
This digital apparatus does not exceed the Class A limits for radio noise emissions from digital
apparatus set out in the Radio Interference Regulations of the Canadian Department of
Communications.
Le présent appareil numérique n’émet pas de bruits radioélectriques dépassant les limites applicables
aux appareils numériques de la class A prescrites dans le Règlement sur le brouillage radioélectrique
édicté par le ministère des Communications du Canada.

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Manufacturer’s Name: Cabletron Systems, Inc.
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About This Guide
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About This Guide
This guide lists and describes the system error messages for the SSR-8. The system
software sends these messages to the console during operation. Some of the generated
messages are for informational purposes only and do not require action. Other
messages indicate a caution or error condition that may require action.
Reading SSR-8 System Error Messages
Each system error message begins with a dash and has the following format:
-FACILITY-SEVERITY-DESCRIPTION Message Text
where:
FACILITY Is a code consisting of uppercase letters that indicates the facility to
which the error message refers. Table 1 lists the facility codes.
SEVERITY Is a single-letter code indicating the severity of the error condition.
There are four severity levels:
I Informational Message (least severe)
W Warning Condition
E Error condition
F Fatal error (most severe)
DESCRIPTION Is a code consisting of uppercase letters that identifies the error
message.
Message Text Is a text string that briefly describes the error condition.
How To Use this Book
Each chapter in this book lists and describes the messages generated by the different
system facilities. There is one chapter for each system facility. Within each chapter,
messages are grouped by severity and alphabetized.
You do not need to respond to informational messages.
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The description of each message contains an explanation and a recommended course
of action for responding to it. If the message recurs after you take the recommended
action, call Cabletron technical support.
The following table lists the SSR facility codes and the chapter where error messages
generated by the facility are described.
Table 1: Facility Codes
Code Facility Chapter
ACL Access Control List 1
AGGRGEN Aggregate Generation 2
AUTH Authentification 3
CLI Command Line Interface 4
CONFIG Configuration Edit 5
CONS Console 6
DVMRP Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol 7
ETH 10Base-T Ethernet Driver 8
GATED Gated Parent 9
INTERFACE Interface configuration 10
IP IP Stack 11
IPX IPX Protocol 12
L2TM Level 2 Table Manager 13
L3AGE Level 3 aging 14
MT Multicast Traceroute 15
MULTICAST Multicast “Parent” 16
NETSTAT Netstat 17
NI Network Interface Driver 18
OSPF Open Shortest Path First 19
PING Ping 20
POLICY POLICY 21
QOS Quality of Service priority 22
RCP RCP 23
RES Resolver 24

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RIP Routing Information Protocol 25
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol 26
STATIC STATIC 27
STP STP 28
SYS Operating System 29
SYSLOG System Log 30
TELNET Telnet Server 31
TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol 32
TR Traceroute 33
UNICAST Unicast 34
VLAN VLAN 35
Table 1: Facility Codes (Continued)
Code Facility Chapter

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Chapter 1 Layer 3 Access Control List (ACL) Error
Messages
Informational Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
Chapter 2 AGGRGEN Error Messages
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Chapter 3 Authentification Error Messages
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Chapter 4 CLI Error Messages
Warning Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Chapter 5 Configuration Error Messages
Informational Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
Warning Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Chapter 6 Console Error Messages
Warning Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
Chapter 7 DVMRP Error Messages
Informational Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
Warning Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
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Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
Fatal Errors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5
Chapter 8 10Base-T Ethernet Driver Error Messages
Warning Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1
Fatal Errors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2
Chapter 9 Gated Parent Error Messages
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-1
Fatal Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2
Chapter 10 Interface Configuration Error Messages
Informational Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-1
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-2
Chapter 11 IP Stack Error Messages
Informational Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1
Warning Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-2
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-3
Chapter 12 IPX Protocol Error Messages
Chapter 13 Level 2 Table Manager Error Messages
Informational Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-1
Warning Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-1
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-5
Fatal Errors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-8

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Chapter 14 Level 3 Aging Error Messages
Chapter 15 Multicast Traceroute Error Messages
Warning Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-1
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-2
Chapter 16 Multicast Error Messages
Chapter 17 Netstat Error Messages
Chapter 18 Network Interface Driver Error Messages
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-1
Fatal Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-2
Chapter 19 OSPF Error Messages
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-1
Chapter 20 Ping Error Messages
Chapter 21 POLICY Error Messages
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-1
Chapter 22 QOS Error Messages
Informational Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22-1
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22-2
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Informational Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23-1
Warning Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23-2
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23-2
Chapter 24 Resolver Error Messages
Informational Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-1
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-2
Chapter 25 RIP Error Messages
Chapter 26 SNMP Error Messages
Information Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-1
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-1
Fatal Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-4
Chapter 27 STATIC Error Messages
Chapter 28 STP Error Messages
Warning Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28-1
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28-1
Chapter 29 SYS Error Messages
Warning Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29-1
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29-4
Fatal Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29-8
Chapter 30 Syslog Error Messages

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Chapter 31 Telnet Error Messages
Warning Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31-1
Chapter 32 TFTP Error Messages
Informational Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32-1
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32-1
Chapter 33 Traceroute Error Messages
Chapter 34 Unicast Error Messages
Informational Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34-1
Warning Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34-1
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34-2
Fatal Errors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34-6
Chapter 35 VLAN Error Messages
Informational Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35-1
Warning Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35-3
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Chapter 1: Layer 3 Access Control List (ACL) Error Messages
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Chapter 1 Layer 3 Access Control List (ACL) Error
Messages
This chapter describes the error messages for the Layer 3 Access Control List (ACL)
facility.
Informational Messages
-ACL-I-NOACL No ACL applied to interface <interface_name>
Explanation:
The user is trying to see if an ACL is applied to a specific interface. This message
indicates that there are no ACLs applied to this interface.
Recommended Action:
Informational Message. No action necessary.
-ACL-I-NONE No ACL applied to any services
Explanation:
There is no Service ACL applied to any services on the SSR.
Recommended Action:
Informational Message. No action necessary.
-ACL-I-NOCHANGE No change was made, exiting...
Explanation:
The user is attempting to use the save command in the ACL editor but no change has
been made.
Recommended Action:
Informational Message. No action necessary.

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-ACL-I-NOALL No ACL applied to all IP interfaces.
Explanation:
There is no ACL that is applied to all IP interfaces.
Recommended Action:
Informational Message. No action necessary.
-ACL-I-NOALL No ACL applied to all IPX interfaces.
Explanation:
There is no ACL that is applied to all IPX interfaces.
Recommended Action:
Informational Message. No action necessary.
-ACL_LOG-I-DEFAULT DENY ACL [<acl_name>] on “<interface_name>” ...
Explanation:
This ACL Logging message shows that a packet doesn’t match any of the rules
specified in this ACL. As a result, the packet is denied because of the implicit deny
rule.
Recommended Action:
Informational Message. No action necessary.
-ACL_LOG-I-DENY ACL [<number>] on “<interface_name>” ...
Explanation:
This ACL Loggingmessage shows that a particular packet is denied because it matches
a rule in the specified ACL.
Recommended Action:
Informational Message. No action necessary.

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-ACL_LOG-I-PERMIT ACL [<number>] on “<interface_name>” ...
Explanation:
This ACL Logging message shows that a particular packet is permitted because it
matches a rule in the specified ACL.
Recommended Action:
Informational Message. No action necessary.
Error Messages
-ACL-E-ALREADY ACL <ACL_name> is already applied to interface
<interface_name>.
Explanation:
The user is trying to apply an ACL to an interface where this ACL is already applied.
Recommended Action:
None. An ACL can only be applied to the same interface in the same direction once.
-ACL-E-BADACLNAME Unknown or invalid ACL name: <ACL_name>
Explanation:
The user is trying to apply a non-existent ACL to an interface.
Recommended Action:
Create the ACL first before applying it to the interface.
-ACL-E-IFNOTFOUND <interface_name>: no such interface.
Explanation:
The user is trying to apply an ACL to a non-existent interface.
Recommended Action:
Create the interface first before applying the ACL.

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-ACL-E-NOMODIFYACL is currently in use at interface <interface_name>.
Please use the ACL Editor to edit this ACL.
Explanation:
The user is trying to modify an ACL that is currently applied to an interface.
Recommended Action:
To modify an ACL that is currently applied to an interface, there are two ways you can
do it. One way is to “detach” the ACL from the interface first before modifying the
ACL. You can do so by negating the corresponding acl apply command. The second,
simpler method is to use the ACL Editor. Using the ACL Editor, you can make changes
to an ACL that is currently applied. When you exit and save the modified ACL, the
changes take effect immediately.
-ACL-E-NOSUCHRULE Unable to find specified ACL rule; possibly deleted
by another configuration task.
Explanation:
The ACL that you are trying to use does not exist. This message only occurs in the rare
situation where someone deleted the ACL as you try to use it.
Recommended Action:
Re-create the ACL that you want to use.
-ACL-E-SAMEPROTO Another ACL (<ACL_name>) for <interface_name>
has already been applied to this interface.
Explanation:
Another ACL for the same protocol has already been applied to this interface in the
same direction (input or output). You cannot apply a second ACL for the same protocol
to the same interface in the same direction. For example, you can only apply one IP
ACL to an IP interface in the inbounddirection. You can applya second IP ACL to the
same IP interface if it is applied in the outbound direction but not if they apply to the
same direction. This approach is chosen to avoid confusion as to which ACL should
have precedence over otherACLs in the event thatnone of the rules inan ACL matches
the packet.