[c-nsp] difference between OutDiscards and Overruns

Martin T m4rtntns at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 11:33:00 EDT 2011


Peter,
I see. So most likely Outdiscards happen in case of backplane puts
frames to bus, but interface outbound buffers are not able to accept
new frames because they are full?


regards,
martin

2011/7/20 Peter Rathlev <peter at rathlev.dk>:
> On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 15:09 +0300, Martin T wrote:
>> What is the difference between "OutDiscards" and "Overruns" under
>> output of "show interfaces" and "show interfaces counters errors"?
>> According to Cisco documentation, they both should indicate lack of
>> space in interface buffers..
>
> Overruns are inbound (receiving traffic), Outdiscards are outbound
> (transmitting traffic).
>
> --
> Peter
>
>
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