By default, the router’s period packet management process (ppm) runs sessions distributed to the Packet Forwarding Engine in addition to the Routing Engine. This process is responsible for periodic transmission of packets on behalf of its various client processes, such as Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD), and it also receives packets on behalf of client processes.

In addition, ppm handles time-sensitive periodic processing and performs such processes as sending process-specific packets and gathering statistics. With ppm processes running distributed on both the Routing Engine and the Packet Forwarding Engine, you can run such processes as BFD on the Packet Forwarding Engine.

Distributed ppm Required for ETH-DM

Procedure to Ensure that Distributed ppm is Not Disabled

1. Display the packet processing management (PPM) configuration to determine whether distributed ppm is disabled.

   • In the following example, distributed ppm is enabled on the router. In this case, you do not need to modify the router configuration:
     [edit]user@host# show routing-optionsppm;
   • In the following example, distributed ppm is disabled on the router. In this case, you must proceed to Step 2 to modify the router configuration:
     [edit]user@host show routing-options

     ppm {no-delegate-processing;}

2. Modify the router configuration to re-enable distributed ppm and restart the Ethernet OAM Connectivity Fault Management process ONLY IF distributed ppm is disabled (as determined in the previous step).

   1. Before continuing, make any necessary preparations for the possible loss of connectivity on the router.

      Restarting the ethernet-connectivity-fault-management process has the following effect on your network:

      • All connectivity fault management (CFM) sessions re-establish.
      • All ETH-DM requests on the router terminate.
      • All ETH-DM statistics and frame counts reset to 0.
   2. Modify the router configuration to re-enable distributed ppm. For example:
      [edit]user@host# delete routing-options ppm no-delegate-processing
   3. Commit the updated router configuration. For example:
      [edit]user@host# commit and-quitcommit completeexiting configuration mode
   4. To restart the Ethernet OAM Connectivity-Fault-Management process, enter the restart ethernet-connectivity-fault-management <gracefully | immediately | soft> operational mode command. For example:
      user@host> restart ethernet-connectivity-fault-managementConnectivity fault management process started, pid 9893