[c-nsp] 3850 and output drops

Nick Hilliard nick at foobar.org
Tue Sep 6 13:22:12 EDT 2016


Gert Doering wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 06:48:01PM +0200, Sebastian Beutel wrote:
>> The output errors counters count different things on a 3750 and a 3850. 
>> While the 3750 only counts "frames dropped due to physical media problems"
>> the 3850 also adds "frames dropped due to filled buffer" to this number.
> 
> Maybe "the 3750 has reasonable buffers, while the 3850 is from the
> new regime of 'make it cheap, make small buffers' switches"...
> 
> (But that is just guesswork, and the 3850 is not actually *cheap*)

... and the 3750 does not have reasonable buffers.

Nick


More information about the cisco-nsp mailing list