Yeah good point… first question that comes to mind is why upstream provider connection is connected to a switch … why not go from router to provider and then router to the switch keeping all “downstream” traffic in the switch
> On Nov 5, 2016, at 9:14 AM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > > With the limited information you've given, I'd put money on microbursts. > > For all your traffic higher than 1Gbps, that data has to get buffered on > egress ports of devices. Eventually, traffic will get dropped to make room > for new traffic. This is far worse in places where you may also have 100Mbps > ports. > > "doesn't seem to be affecting the wan side of my router which connects to > peers through the same switch" this was the kicker to me, combined with the > "~2Gbps" line. > > > On Nov 5, 2016 3:12 AM, "TJ Trout" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > I have a 10G switch that is switching everything of mine at my NOC, including > peers, router wan, router lan, uplink to tower, etc > > During peak traffic periods ~2gbps I'm seeing 1% packet loss and throughput > will drop to 0 for just a second and resume normal for a few minutes before > dropping back to zero for just a second. doesn't seem to be affecting the wan > side of my router which connects to peers through the same switch. Doesn't > happen during the day with low periods of traffic. > > I've enabled / disabled STP, Flow control. > > I believe I've isolated it to not be a single port, possibly have a bad > switch but that seems hard to believe... > > Ideas? >
