Hello,
1) Yesterday night, I got a lot of packet loss on my network, turns out that I usually run at 20,000 packets per second and it spiked up to 70,000 packets per second. I have a Cisco 3550 SMI 48 port with 2 GIG ports.
Now on my provider GIG port (on my switch) it said something like 647 millions packets ignored, this is why we got all these packet losses, seems like everything stabilized but I really need to know what caused that and HOW to prevent it in the future, maybe packet sniffing etc...
2) Also, after that attack, my CPU usage on the switch instead of going back to its normal 2-3 percent usage, it stays up at 17 percent, how to fix that?
Can someone PLEASE help and recommend me things to do for both number 1 & 2 ?
Thanks