High rate on "flow_host_ha_encap_err"

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High rate on "flow_host_ha_encap_err"

L4 Transporter

Hi folks,

By chance (okay, we were troubleshooting another issue) we found a potentially strange issue on our active PA-2050 (there is a secondary (HA passive) PA-2050 in place as well).

1) We issue the following command on the prompt: show counter global filter delta yes severity drop

2) We get the following output:

Global counters:

Elapsed time since last sampling: 561.912 seconds

name                                   value     rate severity  category  aspect    description

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flow_rcv_err                               8        0 drop      flow      parse     Packets dropped: flow stage receive error

flow_rcv_dot1q_tag_err                   120        0 drop      flow      parse     Packets dropped: 802.1q tag not configured

flow_no_interface                        120        0 drop      flow      parse     Packets dropped: invalid interface

flow_ipv6_disabled                       234        0 drop      flow      parse     Packets dropped: IPv6 disabled on interface

flow_policy_deny                        3560        6 drop      flow      session   Session setup: denied by policy

flow_tcp_non_syn_drop                   1144        2 drop      flow      session   Packets dropped: non-SYN TCP without session match

flow_fwd_l3_mcast_drop                 26653       47 drop      flow      forward   Packets dropped: no route for IP multicast

flow_parse_l4_tcpfin                       1        0 drop      flow      parse     Packets dropped: invalid TCP flags (FIN only)

flow_parse_l4_tcpsynfin                    7        0 drop      flow      parse     Packets dropped: invalid TCP flags (SYN+FIN+*)

flow_action_close                        506        0 drop      flow      pktproc   TCP sessions closed via injecting RST

flow_host_service_deny                    13        0 drop      flow      mgmt      Device management session denied

flow_host_service_unknown              26654       47 drop      flow      mgmt      Session discarded: unknown application to control plane

flow_host_ha_encap_err                465431      828 drop      flow      mgmt      Packets dropped: encapsulation error to control plane's HA agent

flow_lion_rcv_err                          8        0 drop      flow      offload   Packets dropped: receive error from offload processor

appid_lookup_invalid_flow                  1        0 drop      appid     pktproc   Packets dropped: invalid session state

tcp_drop_decrypt_packets                  43        0 drop      tcp       pktproc   number of decrypted packets get dropped

proxy_url_request_pkt_drop                 2        0 drop      proxy     pktproc   The number of packets get dropped because of waiting for url category request in ssl proxy

url_request_pkt_drop                      91        0 drop      url       pktproc   The number of packets get dropped because of waiting for url category request

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Total counters shown: 18

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What concerns us is the line marked red above. It looks like it's abnormal... Does anyone have a clue how we could troubleshoot this issue to find the cause for it? We don't see any System logs indicating a problem with HA... The Switch ports look good (all interfaces in 1000 FD mode and 0 errors/discards, etc.).

The HA settings (active/passive mode) are attached.

Thanks a lot!

Oliver

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my bad i saw the word " secondary device " and thought this is active/active setup. Just give a shot changing the mode to l3 on ha 2 interface/

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L4 Transporter

The output in the main post shows only the delta rate, the output below shows the absolute value and it looks quite high...

PAN(active)> show counter global | match flow_host_ha_encap_err

name                                   value     rate severity  category  aspect    description

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flow_host_ha_encap_err             2039219767      841 drop      flow      mgmt      Packets dropped: encapsulation error to control plane's HA agent

How does your packet forwarding settings for ha look like ? do you have primary device or first packet ? Can u switch this option and see if that makes any difference ? also how is your ha 2 ? is it L2 ethernet or L3 . Can you make L3 it is not already and see if it makes any diff.

-Sandeep

We don't have a packet forwarding setting in active/passive mode. I think this option is only available in active/active mode.

The ha2 is currently setup with "ethernet" as transport. I'll change it to L3 next Sunday (maintenance window) and report back when done. Thanks for the hint!

-Oliver

my bad i saw the word " secondary device " and thought this is active/active setup. Just give a shot changing the mode to l3 on ha 2 interface/

That's it. I just tested it with "IP" as transport type and the errors are gone. Thanks a lot for your help.

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