Packet Loss on switched network [7:64411]

2003-03-04 Thread John Brandis
Another problem Sys admins here have noticed that when trying to ping some of the switch's, some of the packets simply die in transit. Other people have said that the speed of file transfers here is getting poor. We have a simple network here, 3 levels, each having 4x 2950's, connect via Gigabit

RE: Packet Loss on switched network [7:64411]

2003-03-04 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
Quick answer: 1) Don't test with ping to the switches. Switches and routers de-prioritize pings. Their job is to forward frames as fast as possible and that's what they prioritize. 2) Test with applications that your users actually use and that require the switch to forward frames or 3) Test with

Re: Packet Loss on switched network [7:64411]

2003-03-04 Thread Amazing
we had similar symptoms and without having much information from you, your problem may or may not be the same as mine--what we found was that even though we had forced the speed and the duplex on the switch, the server NIC's were still at auto detect. Once we changed the servers to 100/full the pr