Catalyst 2950 interface problem

Question

Hi, Sirs.
My Catalyst 2950-24 (IOS Ver 12.1.22EA7)stops communicate with an other switch port of a Catalyst 3512XL-EN after catalyst 2950 powered on 1 or 2 days.
th show interface shows that 2476498 ignored.
FastEthernet0/1 is up, line protocol is up (connected)
Hardware is Fast Ethernet, address is 000d.28c0.cf41 (bia 000d.28c0.cf41)
MTU 1500 bytes, BW 100000 Kbit, DLY 100 usec,
reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
Keepalive set (10 sec)
Full-duplex, 100Mb/s, media type is 100BaseTX
input flow-control is unsupported output flow-control is unsupported
ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
Last input 3d19h, output 00:00:00, output hang never
Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0
Queueing strategy: fifo
Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)
5 minute input rate 28000 bits/sec, 44 packets/sec
5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
10033048 packets input, 806430104 bytes, 2476489 no buffer
Received 10031591 broadcasts (0 multicast)
0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 2476498 ignored
0 watchdog, 2217265 multicast, 0 pause input
0 input packets with dribble condition detected
357799 packets output, 25835259 bytes, 0 underruns
0 output errors, 0 collisions, 2 interface resets
0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier, 0 PAUSE output
0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out
what does is mean?

Answer 1

Hello,
what other switches do you have in your network ? If you have just the 2950 and the 3500, make sure that the 2950 is the root switch for all your VLANs, by configuring the global command:
spanning-tree vlan x priority 0
Also, check the log on the 2950 for the following message:
SCHAN ERROR INTR: SRC=6 DST=5 OPCODE=20 ERRCODE=5
If you see those, chances are that you have a faulty unit. Here is the relevant bug info:
CSCdv83336 Bug Details
Under certain level of traffic load, the (2950) switch will start logging the following messages on the console:
SCHAN ERROR INTR: SRC=6 DST=5 OPCODE=20 ERRCODE=5
and after a few seconds, the switch will stop passing any traffic. In some cases, the switch seemed still forwarding broadcast and multicast traffic, which will cause STP problem if the switch has redundant link and is not supposed to be the root for the VLAN, as both port will go forwarding.
The same error message has been identified in CSCdu87836.
An assessment of the impact
Unit stops passing any traffic.
WORKAROUND
Several units were returned by CISCO. The units were re-screened to the latest test program, and failed the SDRAM memory test.
Customer should RMA unit back to Cisco
Regards,
Nethelper