Multicast and Routing Guide K/KA/KB.15.15

Messages related to PIM operation
These messages appear in the Event Log and, if syslog debug is configured, in the designated
Debug destinations.
NOTE: The [counter] value displayed at the end of each PIM Event Log message (and SNMP
trap messages, if trap receivers are configured) indicates the number of times the switch has
detected a recurring event since the last reboot. See the Management and Configuration Guide
for your switch.
MeaningMessage
A PIM packet arrived from another router for which no
neighbor was found. May indicate a misconfiguration
alpha-string pkt, src IP
ip-addr vid vlan-id
(not a nbr) (counter)
between the sending and receiving router. May also
occur if a connected router is disconnected, then
reconnected.
The switch detected a TTL of 0 (zero) in the PIM portion
of a state-refresh packet. (This is not the IP TTL.)
Bad TTL in State Refresh pkt from IP
source-ip-addr (counter)
There are more than 2048 active flows. The switch routes
the excess through software, which processes traffic at
Failed alloc of HW alpha-str
for flow multicast-address ,
source-address (dup-msg-cnt)
a slower rate. If this will be an ongoing or chronic
condition, transfer some of the flows to another router.
The router was unable to allocate memory for a PIM
control packet. Router memory is oversubscribed. Reduce
Failed to alloc a PIM
data-type pkt (counter)
the number of VLANs or increase the hello delay and/or
the override interval to reduce the number of
simultaneous packet transmissions. If the number of flows
exceeds 2048, the excess flows are routed in software,
which reduces the number of packet transmissions. In
this case, reducing the number of flows by moving some
clients to other routers can help.
Indicates an internal error. Report the incident to your
HP customer care center and reinstall the router software.
Failed to initialize text-str
as a call back routine (counter)
Indicates that the interface (VLAN) has been configured
with the indicated IP address. At boot-up or when an IP
I/F configured with IP ip-address
on vid vlan-id (counter)
address is changed, the switch generates this message
for each PIM-configured VLAN.
Indicates that a PIM interface (VLAN) has been removed
from the router as a result of an IP address change or
removal.
I/F removal with IP ip-addr
on vid vlan-id (counter)
The indicated multicast flow is not routing. The routing
switch is low on memory resources as a result of too
MCAST flow multicast-address
source-address not rteing
(rsc low) (counter)
many flows for the number of configured VLANs.
Remedies include one or more of the following:
• Reduce the number of configured VLANs by moving
some VLANs to another router.
• Free up system resources by disabling another
feature, such as one of the spanning-tree protocols
or either the RIP or the OSPF routing protocol. (Unless
you are using static routes, you will need to retain a
minimum of one unicast routing protocol.) Another
option that may help is to reduce the number of
configured QoS filters.
• Move some hosts that create multicast demand to
another router.
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