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please help regarding Flowcontrol

albaimani1
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Greetings!

 

 

 

I have a Cisco switch model WS-C3650-48TS-S and I configured in one of its interfaces flowcontrol receive on but when I check the interface using show interface I noticed that input flow-control off and output flow-control unsupported I wounder why the flow control not working even i configured it already?

 

 

Interface configuration

interface GigabitEthernet2/0/3
 switchport access vlan 111
 switchport mode access
 flowcontrol receive on

 

show interface output

GigabitEthernet2/0/3 is up, line protocol is up (connected) 
  Hardware is Gigabit Ethernet, address is f8c2.8857.340d (bia f8c2.8857.340d)
  Description: N5Strg iSCSI Port
  MTU 9198 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit/sec, DLY 10 usec, 
     reliability 255/255, txload 11/255, rxload 8/255
  Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
  Keepalive set (10 sec)
  Full-duplex, 1000Mb/s, media type is 10/100/1000BaseTX
  input flow-control is off, output flow-control is unsupported 
  ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
  Last input 00:00:06, output never, output hang never
  Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
  Input queue: 0/2000/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0
  Queueing strategy: fifo
  Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)
  5 minute input rate 31653000 bits/sec, 3746 packets/sec
  5 minute output rate 44204000 bits/sec, 4417 packets/sec
     6668410425 packets input, 18568845018908 bytes, 0 no buffer
     Received 8271 broadcasts (0 multicasts)
     0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles 
     0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
     0 watchdog, 0 multicast, 0 pause input
     0 input packets with dribble condition detected
     8040770794 packets output, 29759036783816 bytes, 0 underruns
     0 output errors, 0 collisions, 1 interface resets
     0 unknown protocol drops
     0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
     0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier, 0 pause output
     0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out

 

 

Please help me if you know why it does not work

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Peter Paluch
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Hi,

Cisco Catalyst switches generally do not support output flow control - they never send PAUSE frames - so the message about the output flow control being unsupported is normal and expected.

Regarding the input flow control, this feature has to be advertised by the link partner during linkup and autonegotiation phase. In other words, the device connected to this port must itself advertise the ability to use flow control. If the input flow control is claimed to be off then it may be caused by the device connected to this port that does not advertise this capability. You should check its NIC settings and optionally try to shutdown/unshutdown the port to go over the autonegotiation again.

Please keep us informed!

Best regards,
Peter

jsartori23
Level 1
Level 1

Did you ever get this resolved I was seeing the same issue and bouncing the port didn't fix it.

Thanks

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