RE: Router Reboot Upon Input csim star

From: Tim Medley (tim.medley@ireadyworld.com)
Date: Wed Sep 25 2002 - 21:31:36 GMT-3


Yes, this is common. csim is an undocumented command and is subject to quirky behavior. I strongly reccommend not using csim in a production network.

We had a bonehead at work realize this the hard way, we had a production voice gateway crash and reload at 8:35am dropping about 30 calls.

tm

Tim Medley, CCNP+Voice, CCDP, CWNA
Sr. Network Architect
VoIP Group
iReadyWorld

-----Original Message-----
From: Tu Nguyen [mailto:tunguyen@juniper.net]
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 1:44 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Router Reboot Upon Input csim star

Hi,

Have any seen this before? Upon inserting the csim star command, the router got reboot!!

Thanks,

Tu

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) C2600 Software (C2600-IS-M), Version 12.0(7)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)
Copyright (c) 1986-1999 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Tue 07-Dec-99 02:21 by phanguye
Image text-base: 0x80008088, data-base: 0x80C524F8

cisco 2621 (MPC860) processor (revision 0x102) with 53248K/12288K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID JAB04130735 (3364644779)
M860 processor: part number 0, mask 49
Bridging software.
X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.
2 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
2 Serial network interface(s)
2 Voice FXS interface(s)
32K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
8192K bytes of processor board System flash (Read/Write)
---------------------------------------------------------
R1#csim star 3159
csim: called number = 3159, loop count =
*** System received a SegV exception ***
signal= 0xb, code= 0x1100, context= 0x81321d28
PC = 0x0, Vector = 0x1100, SP = 0x8166df00
*** Unexpected Console tx-ready interrupt ***
PC = 0xfff03fc4, Vector = 0x500, SP = 0x81322f34

System Bootstrap, Version 11.3(2)XA4, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1999 by cisco Systems, Inc.
TAC:Home:SW:IOS:Specials for info
C2600 platform with 65536 Kbytes of main memory

program load complete, entry point: 0x80008000, size: 0x6fdb4c
Self decompressing the image : #######################################################################################################################################



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