Hello list,

I am a little lost here trying to find the cause for a little packetloss (up to 1%) I'm seeing in our network. Here is the situation:

a MX480 is acting as a router and layer2 device using irb interfaces for the routing. It connects two big switches with 10GE each. One is a Cisco 6509 with sup32, the other one a Brocade SuperX. Rapid spanning-tree is active. I am seeing 0% packet-loss for everything connected to the Cisco. There is also no packet-loss for switched traffic that passes both switches and the router as well. But there is packet loss for more or less all routed traffic coming from the SuperX which variies between 0% and 1%.

Since only routed traffic is affected, one might safely asume that this is not related to the switching hardware. The link itself can't be the cause as well. It's furthermore unlikely that the router itself is broken since everything coming from the cisco works fine.

Just to mention that: routed traffic might be externally or internally, it doesn't make a difference.

This is the configuration for the interface facing the SuperX:

nico@MX480> show configuration interfaces xe-1/1/0
flexible-vlan-tagging;
encapsulation flexible-ethernet-services;
unit 0 {
    family bridge {
        interface-mode trunk;
        vlan-id-list 0-4094;
    }
}


The other interface is actually an aggregated link consisting of 2x 10G going to the Cisco. It looks pretty much the same but since there are also a few routed-only units, the vlan-id-list looks a little different in order to be able to set up those routed ports.


I am now seeking for hints what to do. Might the currently unnecessary "flexible-vlan-tagging & flexible-ethernet-services" be the cause? This is just to keep options open but is right now not required though and will most likely consume a little more memory than required (shouldn't be a problem with the MX though). Might the xe-1/1/0 interface be broken? Unlikely in my opinion since l2 traffic works.


Any hint will be appreciated! Thanks in advance!


Nico
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