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Broacast traffic

david-lima
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Hi, I have almos 500 PC and 250 IP Phones, on the uplink interfaces of the switches (cisco 2960-no vlans) i have a broadcast traffic the increments by 25 per second. How can I test if this amoun of traffic is normal

Thanks

David

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xcz504d1114
Level 4
Level 4

"Normal" traffic is unique to every network. I would recommend doing some port monitoring, install a software such as wireshark, and then capture the data for a minute, stop it, then look at what type of traffic it is, where the source and destinations are etc.

If you just connect to a normal port, and turn on wireshark you will see all of the unknown unicast, multicast and braodcast traffic, if you span one of your trunks you will get a lot more information.

HTH,

Craig

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