[50260] in North American Network Operators' Group

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

Re: debugging packet loss

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wes Bachman)
Tue Jul 23 14:47:00 2002

From: Wes Bachman <wbachman@leepfrog.com>
To: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: 
	<Pine.LNX.4.21.0207231147520.30271-100000@cpu1693.adsl.bellglobal.com>
Date: 23 Jul 2002 13:45:02 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 10:53, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
> 
> I'm seeing 2-5% packet loss going through a Cisco 2621 with <10mbps of
> traffic running at ~50% CPU.  (packet loss based on ping results)
> ...

If its not the switch or source ethernet segment generally, and it
doesn't appear to be the router itself, I would concentrate on the
ethernet segment between the switch and the router.  (Assuming that your
packet loss is while pinging the router, and not something on the other
end of the router.)

-Wes Bachman  wbachman@leepfrogDOTcom

-- 
Wes Bachman
System & Network Administration, Software Development
Leepfrog Technologies, Inc.


home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post