Understanding show Command Responses

This section summarizes cable-related show commands. For additional

command information about these and other CMTS commands, refer to these
additional resources on Cisco.com:

• Cisco Broadband Cable Command Reference Guide

• Cisco Cable Modem Termination System Feature Guide

Command Purpose
show cable To display the cable flap-list on a Cisco uBR7200 series router,
flap-list [sort- use the show cable flap-list command in privileged EXEC
interface | sort- mode.
flap | sort-time]
For the Cisco uBR7200 series, the sort option applies to one line
card at a time, then the list is merged together. For example, the
flap list is sorted for cable7/0, appears on the console, and then
is sorted for cable 7/1, which then appears on the console, and
so on.

The show cable flap-list and show cable modem commands

indicate when the Cisco uBR7200 series CMTS has detected an
unstable return path for a particular modem and has
compensated with a power adjustment. An asterisk (*) appears in
the power-adjustment field for a modem when a power
adjustment has been made; an exclamation point appears when
the modem has reached its maximum power transmit level and
cannot increase its power level any further.

For additional information about using cable flap lists, refer to the
chapter "Flap List Troubleshooting for the Cisco CMTS" in the
Cisco Cable Modem Termination System Feature Guide.

show cable To display all Data-over-Cable Service Interface Specification

modem (DOCSIS) states, and other useful troubleshooting information,
such as last received upstream radio frequency (RF) power level
and maximum number of provisioned customer premises
equipment (CPE), use the show cable modem command in
privileged EXEC mode.

Note DOCSIS CMs are required to pass through successive

states during registration and provisioning. Using this
information, you can isolate why a CM is offline or unavailable.

The show cable flap-list and show cable modem commands

indicate when the Cisco uBR7200 series CMTS has detected an
unstable return path for a particular modem and has
compensated with a power adjustment. An asterisk (*) appears in
the power-adjustment field for a modem when a power
adjustment has been made; an exclamation point appears when
the modem has reached its maximum power transmit level and
cannot increase its power level any further.

The show cable modem command displays a list of options for

a single modem to be specified by entering either the RF CPE
device IP address or MAC address:

• Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) information for each CM on each

interface

• Summary display of the total number of modems connected

for each upstream channel
 • Total number of registered and unregistered modems for the
specified interface or upstream

• Total number of offline modems for the specified interface or

upstream, and status for each offline modem before it went
offline

show cable To display station maintenance error statistics, use the

modem show cable modem maintenance command in privileged
maintenance EXEC mode.

When a CM is detected to be offline by the CMTS—no reply after

16 retries of station maintenance requests—the CM is marked
offline. Besides marking the CM and service identifier (SID) state
offline, the SID is removed immediately from the CMTS ranging
list, and an aging timer is started to clean up the SID completely
if the CM does not attempt to come online within the next
24 hours.

Output fields are described below:

• The SM Exhausted Count value refers to the number of

times a CM was dropped because it did not reply to station
maintenance requests. A CM is removed from the station
maintenance list after 16 times of periodic ranging opportunity
without seeing the RNG_REQ from the modem.

• The SM Aborted Count value refers to the number of times

the CM was dropped because its operational parameters were
unacceptable. This includes such reasons as the power level is
outside the acceptable range, or the timing offset keeps
changing. The respective times in the command output indicate
when this happened.

show cable qos To display type of service (ToS) specifications, use the show
profile cable qos profile command in privileged EXEC mode.
Information includes upstream packet discards, errors, error-free
packets, correctable and uncorrectable errors, noise, and micro-
reflection statistics.

Following is a response to the show cable qos profile

command. The display shows ToS specifications:

Router# show cable qos profile

Service Prio Max       Guarantee Max

Max tx TOS  TOS  Create
B
class        upstream  upstream downstream
burst mask value
by   priv
>            bandwidth bandwidth bandwidth
                        enab
1 0 0 0 0         
0 0x0 0x0
cmts(r) no
2 0 64000 0 1000000
0 0x0 0x0
cmts(r) no
3 0 1000 0 1000
0 0x0 0x0 cmts
   no
 4 3 256000 0 512000
0 0x0 0x0 cm
     no
5 5 1000000 0 10000000
0 0x0 0x0 cm
     no
6 3 256000 0 512000
0 0x0 0x0 cm
     yes

Note The "r" in the "Create by" column means that the first two
classes of service the CMTS creates are reserved for CMs that
are not online.

The optional argument n can be used to display a specific profile.

show interface To display cable interface information, use the show interface
cable cable command in privileged EXEC mode:

show interface cable slot/port [downstream | upstream]

The following example displays show interface cable command

output for a CM located in slot 1/port 0:

Router# show interface cable 5/0

Cable5/0 is up, line protocol is up

Hardware is BCM3210 FPGA, address is
00e0.1e5f.7a60 (bia
00e0.1e5f.7a60)
Internet address is 1.1.1.3/24
MTU 1500 bytes, BW 27000 Kbit, DLY 1000
usec, rely 255/255, load
1/255
Encapsulation, loopback not set,
keepalive not set
ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
Last input 4d07h, output 00:00:00, output
hang never
Last clearing of "show interface"
counters never
Queuing strategy: fifo
Output queue 0/40, 0 drops; input queue
0/75, 0 drops
5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0
packets/sec
5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0
packets/sec
10908 packets input, 855000 bytes, 0 no
buffer
Received 3699 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0
giants, 0 throttles
3 input errors, 3 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun,
0 ignored, 0 abort
5412 packets output, 646488 bytes, 0
underruns
0 output errors, 0 collisions, 13082
interface resets
0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers
swapped out
 The show interface cable upstream command is enhanced to
display details on the MAC scheduler state for an upstream port.

New items in the display include:

• Detailed slot queue statistics—Queue [CIR Grants] 0/20, fair

queuing, 0 drops in the previous example, meaning that the
queue for CIR-service grants has a current depth of 0, and a
maximum depth of 20. Weighted fair queuing shows grants in
this queue.

• Constant bit rate (CBR) slot scheduling table state—The

reserved slot table in the previous example has two CBR entries.
This shows that at the time the command was issued, the MAC
scheduler had admitted two CBR slots in the reserved slot table.

• Counters for each type of upstream slot scheduled in the

MAPs for this upstream channel—The "Init Mtn IEs 800" means
that the MAC scheduler has added 800 initial maintenance
information elements (slots) at the time the show command was
issued.

• MAC scheduling statistics—Displays the percentage of the

upstream bandwidth that is used for each type of slot on an
average.

show interface To display the service identifier (SID) for a CM, use the
cable sid show interface cable sid command in privileged EXEC mode.

The following sample output from the show interface cable sid
command shows the one form of the command:

Router# show int c4/0 sid

Sid Prim MAC Address IP Address Type Age

Admin Sched Sfid

State Type
5 0010.7b6b.58c1 10.20.114.34 stat
2d1h36menable BE 1
6 0010.7bed.9dc9 10.20.114.37 stat
2d1h36menable BE 13
7 0010.7bed.9dbb 10.20.114.38 stat
2d1h36menable BE 15
8 0010.7b6b.58bb 10.20.114.112 stat
2d1h34menable BE 17
9 0010.7b6b.58bb 10.20.114.112 dyna
2d1h34menable BE 19

show cable To display modulation profile group information for a Cisco

modulation- CMTS, use the show cable modulation-profile command in
profile privileged EXEC mode.

The show cable modulation-profile command now includes an

added option number that displays the modulation profile
number.

The show cable modulation-profile command completely

replaces the former show cable burst-profile command.