Drop statistics
Captured 2026-08-03 from one CE of this deployment.
Argo counts every discard by reason. This is the fastest way to tell “the packet never arrived” from “the packet arrived and was dropped deliberately”.
dropstats-non-zero
Section titled “dropstats-non-zero”Prefer this one. It shows only counters that have fired, which is a handful of lines instead of sixty-five.
{"command":["dropstats-non-zero"]}IF RX Discard 11Invalid ARP 12
Flow Action Drop 121Flow Unusable (Eviction) 229
Discards 19Cloned Original 217
Invalid Packets 945
Misc 333Invalid Source 6Invalid VLAN 4dropstats
Section titled “dropstats”Every counter including the zeroes.
{"command":["dropstats"]}Invalid IF 0Trap No IF 0IF TX Discard 0IF Drop 0IF RX Discard 11Invalid ARP 12
Flow Unusable 0Flow No Memory 0Flow Table Full 0Flow NAT no rflow 0Flow Action Drop 121Flow Action Invalid 0Flow Invalid Protocol 0Flow Queue Limit Exceeded 0New Flow Drops 0Flow Unusable (Eviction) 229Flow Resource Exhaustion 0
Original Packet Trapped 0
Discards 19TTL Exceeded 0Mcast Clone Fail 0Cloned Original 217
Invalid NH 0Invalid Label 0Invalid Protocol 0Rewrite Fail 0Invalid Mcast Source 0Packet Loop 0
Push Fails 0Pull Fails 0Duplicated 0Head Alloc Fails 0PCOW Fails 0Invalid Packets 945
Misc 333Nowhere to go 0Checksum errors 0No Fmd 0Invalid VNID 0Fragment errors 0Invalid Source 6Jumbo Mcast Pkt with DF Bit 0No L2 Route 0Memory Failures 0Fragment Queueing Failures 0Policer Drops 0ACL Drops 0Invalid VLAN 4VLAN fwd intf failed TX 0VLAN fwd intf failed enq 0Tunnel Level Exceeded 0Anomaly Packets 0Denied 0SynCookieFail 0
... [capture trimmed: first 60 of 65 lines]Worth reading in full once, to learn which reasons exist. After that, the non-zero variant is the one to use.