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Re: Validation of FCS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Mon Dec 24 05:15:18 2012

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Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 10:14:53 +0000
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
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On 24/12/2012 00:39, joel jaeggli wrote:
> I have cut-through switches (arista) that log these as TX errors, they have
> already left the barn at that point.

it's a real pain when this happens because you have no idea of the ingress
port and consequently the source of the data corruption source.  The same
happens for regular packet drops on some cut-thru switches (e.g. brocade
ti-24x).  Annoying.

Nick



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