10G switch drops traffic for a split second

Tue Nov 29 23:10:28 UTC 2016

On Tue, 29 Nov 2016, TJ Trout wrote:

> I plan on disabling FC on everything tonight, I've done that before but I
> want to be sure.
>
> Anything that can be done about the 2 x 1G peers trunking to the 10G router
> transition that can be fixed? should I be rate limiting the vlan for the
> peers at 1G so the 10G router isn't trying to send more than 1G?

  This thread reminded me of a blog post that struck me as useful 5 years
  ago, and again today. Measuring throughput, when dealing with buffers and
  troubleshooting errors and packet loss, must be done at a sub-one-second
  sampling rate.

  http://blog.serverfault.com/2011/06/27/per-second-measurements-dont-cut-it/

Beckman
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