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Re: 10G switch drops traffic for a split second


From: Chuck Anderson <cra () WPI EDU>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 11:32:53 -0500

Without more detail, I'm grasping at straws here, but see this recent
thread about QoS and microbursts on the juniper-nsp list:

https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/juniper-nsp/2016-November/033692.html

Do you have ports with different speeds connected?

Another idea: Are you using Spanning Tree Protocol and seeing lots of
TCNs?

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 01:06:00AM -0800, TJ Trout wrote:
I recently upgraded my core network from 1G to 10G and after the upgrade I
have noticed that my 10G switch during peak traffic (1500mbps, 100,000pps)
seems to be dropping traffic for a split second across all ports and all
vlans. I immediately replaced the switch with a different brand/model and
the problem persists.

Sometimes traffic drops to zero, others it drops to 50%, problem is very
random but seems to occur with much more frequency during high PPS (pushing
high traffic / iperf does not induce problem)

Could this be MTU? I've tried flow control, hard code duplex, stp on/off etc

I'm at a loss any ideas?

TJ Trout
Volt Broadband


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