[c-nsp] Overruns

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> On 26/01/2011 14:01, Mohammad Khalil wrote:
>> i am facing overruns problem , does changing the queuing mechanism
>> solves this issue?
>
> No.  An overrun indicates a physical problem which caused packet corruption. 
> Check to make sure that your duplex settings are correct on both sides, and 
> if they are, it's probably the cable that's causing the problem.

<http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps700/products_tech_note09186a008015bfd6.shtml>

This document doesn't agree with you:

"overrun 	Description: The number of times the receiver hardware was 
unable to hand received data to a hardware buffer. Common Cause: The input 
rate of traffic exceeded the ability of the receiver to handle the data. "

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se