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Sniffing traffic punted to CPU on Cisco 6500

Submitted by cliff on Wed, 21/03/2018 - 10:57

Sometimes your Cisco 6500 seems to having a hard time with high CPU. Most cases are pretty obvious, like rancid or librenms runs, arp or dhcpd storms. But sometimes it is not that obvious and you want to know which traffic flows to your CPU. Time to dump the packets to the CPU. The following has been retrieved from cisco.com.