Rob Thomas wrote:
>
> > Anyone else seen this? Normal? Causes of deferred packets are?
>
> >From the following Cisco URL:
>
> http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios111/ca111/fechan.htm#xtocid2899518
>
> deferred - Deferred indicates that the chip had to defer while ready to
> transmit a frame because the carrier was asserted.
>
> In other words, it sounds like the wire was busy (Carrier Sense part of
> CSMA/CD).
>
> --
> Rob Thomas
> http://www.cymru.com/~robt
> cmn_err(CE_PANIC, "Out of coffee...");
yes, i have seen this and it refers to waiting for 'state change' on the
leads...anyway you are accurate in your assertion of 'busy'.
i've also seen the same response from cisco. also there is no way to know what
happens with pkts after they go out of 'deferred' status....you can get these on
serial interfaces also
--del hudson sr. network engineer pilot network services piranha@fw.greatcirle.org
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