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I have an intermittent problem on a network at a remote site. The problem is the network seems slow going out over wan. The gateway router does not seem to be the problem, so I wanted to run something by the group. I did a sh int gi4/1, the interface that connects our switch to the router.

Description: uplink from att router MTU 1500 bytes, BW 100000 Kbit, DLY 10 usec, reliability 251/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255 Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set Keepalive set (10 sec)

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Full-duplex, 100Mb/s, link type is auto, media type is 10/100/1000-TX

-snip- input flow-control is off, output flow-control is off ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00 Last input never, output never, output hang never Last clearing of "show interface" counters 3d22h Input queue: 0/2000/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0 Queueing strategy: fifo Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)j

5 minute input rate 334000 bits/sec, 78 packets/sec 5 minute output rate 220000 bits/sec, 96 packets/sec 19830905 packets input, 7253560574 bytes, 0 no buffer Received 15303 broadcasts (0 multicast) 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles 1 input errors, 1 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored 0 input packets with dribble condition detected 21201894 packets output, 6978548159 bytes, 0 underruns 405163 output errors, 19018 collisions, 0 interface rese 0 babbles, 367194 late collision, 0 deferred 0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier 0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out

I am confused on the line reading 'full duplex...', does the auto mean set to an auto condition? Should I set this to 'full/100'? What I see is a lot of collisions and late collisions.

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Reply to
Branigan
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it sounds like the switch and whatever is at the other end of the link disagree about the duplex settings - the effect would be that the error rate increases very rapidly once the port comes under a high load of data in both directions.

the golden rule is to be consistent. possible settings are: both ends set to full duplex both ends set to auto both ends set to 1/2 duplex

1 end auto and the other 1/2 duplex, or not capable of auto negotiate.
Reply to
stephen

Either this...

or this is lying to you. When the port is running full-duplex, it won't show collisions, and when it shows collisions, it's running half duplex.

If the 'collisions' and especially the 'late collisions' counter is going up, it means it's running half duplex and the other end is running full duplex.

Try fixing the port at 100/Full and also check the other end.

Regards,

Marco.

Reply to
M.C. van den Bovenkamp

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