Hi Jim :) On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:24:01PM -0500, Small, James wrote: > > One more thing I didn't mention - the problems are mainly between 7-3 > when they have their peak load. However, they are usually not getting > to more then 70% of their theoretical bandwidth capacity so I'm not sure > that it's necessarily a bandwidth problem. When you look at an SNMP > graph of their bandwidth usage, it doesn't seem like the are maxing out > much and when they do it's very short lived.
You probably have checked this already, but I could not resist in mentioning it, did you check the duplex settings on the uplink-router, the firewall and the switch-ports? If the packet-loss is higher when your (local) traffic increases, but your traffic is not maxing out your links, it does sound like a local problem and duplex mismatches are still source nr.1 in my experience. If it is possible, set all speeds and duplex-modes fixed. Having one side on fixed and the other side on auto is a sure cause for trouble. Having both sides on auto usually works, but does indeed give you duplex-mismatches sometimes. If you have a duplex mismatch, you will see a lot of FCS/alignment errors on the interface in full-duplex mode and a lot of collisions on the interface in half-duplex mode. Cheers, Sake _______________________________________________ Wireshark-users mailing list Wireshark-users@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users
