Haven't seen the problem return since I turned off flow control on the Air
Fiber 5X connected to that port.

Thanks David!

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 9:43 AM, James Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:

> As soon as I turned off flow control on the backhaul Air Fiber connected
> to this port the Netonix switch on the upstream side of the backhaul got
> too many pause frames and shut off its flow control automatically.
>
> Hmmm...
>
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 9:33 AM, James Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> This sounds like the problem Netonix was having with Ubiquiti Air Fibers
>> - a Pause Frame flood.  Their new firmware turns off the flow control on
>> their switches automatically if a pause frame flood is detected.
>>
>>  I will turn off the the flow control on the Air Fiber connected to this
>> port and try that, thanks!
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 9:27 AM, David Jones <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I think I know what is happening... I have had this problem with
>>> Ubiquiti radios for a bit now. That looks like a flood of RX pause packets
>>> from flow control. The MT will see the PPS but you will not find anything
>>> on torch because it is at the switch layer.
>>>
>>> If you have a smart switch there I would strongly recommend finding what
>>> port it is originating from. I bet it is from a UBNT Radio. Then a simple
>>> fix would be disable the flow control on that device.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 8:14 PM, James Wilson <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Jesse!
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Jesse Dupont <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm guessing that if there have been no configuration changes
>>>>> recently, you had nefarious traffic running across this link in the TX
>>>>> direction that was a flood of small packets at a moderate bit rate. The
>>>>> bandwidth drop was because of the 46K PPS, which a 2011 simply can't do.
>>>>> Scott is right, Torching it will make it obvious.
>>>>>
>>>>> > On Aug 3, 2016, at 7:23 PM, James Wilson <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> >   This is Port 3 on an RB2011UiAS at one of our relay sites.
>>>>> Intermittently we are seeing a two minute drop in speed.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >   And the packets per second go up at the same time.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >   Port 3 is connected to an Ubiquiti AirFiber 5X at 1 Gbps.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >   Some of the other ports have Ubiquiti Rockets attached at 100 Mbps.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >   Any ideas?  Can I supply more information?
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > <image.png>
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