Yes. Normal.
Mister Routerman, you will never get more than 2Mb other 10Mb _half-duplex_
connection, and
1Mb traffic is quite the position, when collision effects are become
visible.
Yes, deferred packets _will_be_ up to several percents at 1Mb/sec load.
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Basil (Vasily) V. Dolmatov CCIE# 5347
LightCom Corp. http://www.lightcom.ru
> -----Original Message-----
> From: routerman@visto.com [mailto:routerman@visto.com]On Behalf
> Of A Routerman
> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 8:26 PM
> To: dol@office.east.ru; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: [nsp] Deferred Packets
>
>
> Normal? Even at low traffic rates of less than 1MB on a 10MB
> circuit? I would expect collisions certainly but don't
> understand why packets would be deferred (i.e how is the circuit
> that busy that packets have to be deferred given our traffic
> load). Over the course of 1 week we have over 70,000 deferred
> packets - seems high in relation to traffic (over 1% of total traffic).
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Basil Dolmatov dol@office.east.ru
> Sent: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:25:37 +0300
> To: routerman@briefcase.com, cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: [nsp] Deferred Packets
>
>
>
> "Deferred" packets are absolutely normal at _any_ half-duplex links.
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Basil (Vasily) V. Dolmatov CCIE# 5347
> LightCom Corp. http://www.lightcom.ru
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: routerman@visto.com [mailto:routerman@visto.com]On Behalf
> > Of A Routerman
> > Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 7:42 PM
> > To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
> > Subject: [nsp] Deferred Packets
> >
> >
> > I have an issue that is causing too much hair loss :)
> >
> > We have a two 3640's connected to two Foundry switch/routers.
> > Then behind our 3640's we have two 2924xl switches that have a
> > connection to each 3640 (and the siwtches are trnked). We run
> > HSRP between the routers on the back end.
> >
> > The issue we see is on the front end between the 3640's and the
> > Foundry's. It is a 10 half duplex connection and we are seeing
> > about 1% of total traffic as deferred packets on the Cisco's. No
> > errors on the Foundry's. The link is only utilized at about 8%
> > (less than 1MB).
> >
> > Trying to determine why we are getting deferred packets and what
> > could be causing them. Some say it is "normal" to have deferred
> > packets on a 10 half (as well as collisions of course). Others
> > say it is a problem in that the Cisco is trying to send packets
> > and senses the network is busy so defers the packets.....
> >
> > Anyone else seen this? Normal? Causes of deferred packets are?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
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