11-10-2008 08:37 PM - edited 03-06-2019 02:24 AM
I have switch-A 3524, fa0/9 is connected to switch-B 2924 fa 0/22. We are observing the output utilization on switch-A fa 0/9 is very high(98.94) and at switch-B 2924 fa 0/22 Input utilization is high(99.06) and there is no other port on switch-B with not more than 10% utilization.
3524, fa 0/9 ----> 2954 fa 0/22
Switch-A interface:-
FastEthernet0/9 is up, line protocol is up
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reliability 255/255, txload 219/255, rxload 14/255
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1005 input errors, 1005 CRC, 0 frame, 1134 overrun, 1134 ignored
0 watchdog, 75042 multicast
I appreciate if some one can help me to find what could be the reason.
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11-11-2008 05:07 AM
Those are really old switches so the best way to look at those ports would be to use "sh controllers ethernet-controller fastethernet x/x " to get a good look at all the stats. If you don't have a way to look at the layer 3 info via netflow or other tools then you may have use a packet analyzer and span those ports to get a look at the traffic. To clear the ethernet controller stats it is "clear controllers ethernet-controller " .
11-11-2008 12:16 AM
Hello Gorkal,
the link fa0/9 is the uplink for the second switch switch-B this should explain why you see an high usage of this port: all packets for users connected to switch-B have to be sent out Switch-A:f0/9.
You say there is no other port on SwitchB with more then 10% usage: these are user ports.
Suppose there are ten users each at 10% : a 90% of FE is needed to go on SwitchA:f0/9 to provide the packets to the users.
If you want to find out the associated traffic for each user you can:
on the router / multilayer switch that provides a default gateway to users configure
int fas0/0
ip accounting output
you can then look at statistics with sh ip accounting on the router.
If you find one user with a lot of conversations with internet for example and high traffic volume that means the PC is running some peer-to-peer software.
If all the traffic is legimitate you are facing a limitation of the current setup: you should consider to create an etherchannel link of 2 or 4 FE between the two switches in order to provider more inter-switch bandwidth.
In the mid / long term you could think to change the switches using newer ones with Gigabit uplinks
Hope to help
Giuseppe
11-11-2008 12:18 AM
Hi,
How do you have the speed and duplex of the interfaces in question configured?
Is the inter-switch connection defined as a trunk?
Can you do a 'sh run int fa 0/9' and 'sh run int fa 0/22' on the other switch and post this?
Thanks
11-11-2008 05:07 AM
Those are really old switches so the best way to look at those ports would be to use "sh controllers ethernet-controller fastethernet x/x " to get a good look at all the stats. If you don't have a way to look at the layer 3 info via netflow or other tools then you may have use a packet analyzer and span those ports to get a look at the traffic. To clear the ethernet controller stats it is "clear controllers ethernet-controller " .
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