Re: Apparent packet loss... [7:57922]

2002-11-23 Thread The Long and Winding Road
just a question or two in line below -- TANSTAAFL there ain't no such thing as a free lunch Keith Woodworth wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I need to trouble shoot some apparent packet loss on a 7206VXR with a NSE-1. Weve had some folks downstream of us say

Re: Apparent packet loss... [7:57922]

2002-11-23 Thread Keith Woodworth
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, The Long and Winding Road wrote: |- They have told us to config our ethernet port to half duplex so packets |- will be retransmitted if they get lost in their ATM cloud so we have a |- fairly high collison rate on this port. I dont know enough about ATM to |- say if this is

RE: Apparent packet loss... [7:57922]

2002-11-23 Thread Keith Woodworth
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: |-Don't believe everything you hear! ;-) Couple comments inline. I dont. |-They can't tell if packets are getting dropped from trace route? Just |-because your router doesn't send back the ICMP TTL doesn't mean it's |-dropping packets. It could

Re: Apparent packet loss... [7:57922]

2002-11-23 Thread Marty Adkins
Keith Woodworth wrote: |- Anyway to acutally tell for certain if the router is dropping packets? |- |-show buffers |-show queueing |-show queue interface etc. Showing misses/failures on all buffers but these have the most: Small buffers, 104 bytes (total 50, permanent 50, peak 201 @

Re: Apparent packet loss... [7:57922]

2002-11-23 Thread Keith Woodworth
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Marty Adkins wrote: |-As Priscilla explained, output drops are frequently normal, just indicating |-a speed mismatch combined with a large enough packet burst that the output |-queue limit was exceeded (40 packets). If drops are due to a lack of buffers, |-then that would

Re: Apparent packet loss... [7:57922]

2002-11-23 Thread Marty Adkins
Keith Woodworth wrote: we use ip route-cache policy on each interface that is has policy routing enabled. I'm trying to find out how route-cache correlatets to CEF. Does ip route-cache policy need to be turned off when CEF is enabled? How is it it different than CEF? The two seem to be