Description | This article describes what is an exceptional table and how to check the counter of these exceptional packets. |
Scope | FortiGate with Hyperscale enabled. |
Solution |
In the hyperscale environment, there is an exceptional table. This exceptional table will record the count of exceptional packets. The exceptional packets is refer to those icmp unreachable, MTU too big (fragment needed) messages accross ICMP, TCP, UDP and etcs.
Below are the command and the output sample:
HOSTNAME (global) # fnsysctl cat /proc/net/np7/excp
Note: These counters will keep increasing without flushing until the FortiGate reboots. |
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