From: Robert Fischer (rfischer@broadcom.com)
Date: Thu Apr 15 2004 - 21:08:51 GMT-3
What are the hosts running, Windows/ linux? What are the host uplinks,
10/100? The host connected to the 5500 may be overrunning the 5500's port
buffer. Capture some packets on the 5500 size and watch for the windowing
size to continuously change and the host to retransmit. Newer versions of
Windows like XP are defaulting to 64K window sizes and causing port buffer
issues with older gear. Some versions of Red Hat have difficulty negotiating
this too.
-Robb
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From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Church, Chuck
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 10:35 AM
To: Minihane Kevin-kminih01; MADMAN
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: Strange trunking issue
So now put the Host B on the 3550, and see if the problem exists.  Any
chance it's an MTU issue?  Are A and B in the same VLAN?  If not, who's
routing, the 3550? 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Minihane Kevin-kminih01 [mailto:Kevin.Minihane@motorola.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 12:23 PM
To: 'MADMAN'; Minihane Kevin-kminih01
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: Strange trunking issue
Hiya
Thanks for the input.  I moved hostB onto the 5500, and the problem
disapeared.  I put it back onto the 3550, and the same problem exists
-----Original Message-----
From: MADMAN [mailto:dmadlan@qwest.com]
Sent: 15 April 2004 17:04
To: Minihane Kevin-kminih01
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: Strange trunking issue
   Your assuming you have a switching problem accross the trunk.  Plug host
B into the 5500 and see if you still have the problem.
   Dave
Minihane Kevin-kminih01 wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Apologies in advance if this seems long winded, but I wanted to attach
the configurations, and output of various commands.  
> 
> I'm experiencing a very strange trunking issue, and was wondering if
anyone could perhaps have some input which might help?
> 
> 
> The following is my layout.
> 
> 
> Host A ------- Cat5500 ------------------------------ Cat3550
> ------------ Host B
> 
> Each host is connected to it's switch using a 100Mb full duplex
> connection
> 
> I have two switches (cat 5500 running CatOS, and a 3550).  I'm
trunking between both using dot1q encapsulation.  Vtp information is flowing
freely between them, and I can configure vlans on both, propagate the vlans
between each switch, etc.  The trunk between the switches is a gigabit fibre
connection.
> 
> The problem I am having is when I try to ftp from host A to host B,
and vice versa.
> 
> If I ftp from Host A to Host B, I experience very slow speeds
> (sometimes as low as 24k per second).  If I come from Host B to host 
> A, the speed increases to 8Mbs per second!  I've checked the usual 
> (speed, duplex, check for CRC, dropped packets) and I get nothing
> 
> The following is the config of the interface g0/1 on the 3550
> 
> Lab_3550_1#show run int g0/1
> Building configuration...
> 
> Current configuration : 169 bytes
> !
> interface GigabitEthernet0/1
>  description Trunk to main lab 5500 port 1/1  switchport trunk
> encapsulation dot1q  switchport mode dynamic desirable  no ip address 
> end
> 
> This is the output when I type the "show int g0/1" command on the 3550
> 
> Lab_3550_1#show int g0/1
> GigabitEthernet0/1 is up, line protocol is up (connected)
>   Hardware is Gigabit Ethernet, address is 000d.bc49.44b1 (bia
000d.bc49.44b1)
>   Description: Trunk to main lab 5500 port 1/1
>   MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit, DLY 10 usec, 
>      reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
>   Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
>   Keepalive set (10 sec)
>   Full-duplex, 1000Mb/s, link type is auto, media type is SX
>   output flow-control is off, input flow-control is off
>   ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
>   Last input 00:00:00, output 00:00:00, output hang never
>   Last clearing of "show interface" counters 01:52:54
>   Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops:
0
>   Queueing strategy: fifo
>   Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)
>   5 minute input rate 1962000 bits/sec, 471 packets/sec
>   5 minute output rate 1707000 bits/sec, 428 packets/sec
>      2818750 packets input, 1023156797 bytes, 0 no buffer
>      Received 293096 broadcasts (0 multicast)
>      0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
>      1 input errors, 1 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
>      0 watchdog, 224737 multicast, 0 pause input
>      0 input packets with dribble condition detected
>      2635991 packets output, 1397912368 bytes, 0 underruns
>      0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets
>      0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
>      0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier, 0 PAUSE output
>      0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out
> 
> And finally, on the 3550, I "show int trunk"
> 
> Lab_3550_1#show int trunk
> 
> Port        Mode         Encapsulation  Status        Native vlan
> Fa0/45      desirable    isl            trunking      44
> Fa0/46      desirable    isl            trunking      44
> Fa0/47      on           isl            trunking      41
> Gi0/1       desirable    802.1q         trunking      1
> Gi0/2       desirable    802.1q         trunking      41
> 
> Port      Vlans allowed on trunk
> Fa0/45      1-4094
> Fa0/46      1-4094
> Fa0/47      1-4094
> Gi0/1       1-4094
> Gi0/2       1-4094
> 
> Port        Vlans allowed and active in management domain
> Fa0/45
1,10,12,20,25,28,30-33,35-41,44-45,48,52,54-55,60,130,341,351-352,361,36
9,400-406,419,995
> Fa0/46
1,10,12,20,25,28,30-33,35-41,44-45,48,52,54-55,60,130,341,351-352,361,36
9,400-406,419,995
> Fa0/47
1,10,12,20,25,28,30-33,35-41,44-45,48,52,54-55,60,130,341,351-352,361,36
9,400-406,419,995
> Gi0/1
1,10,12,20,25,28,30-33,35-41,44-45,48,52,54-55,60,130,341,351-352,361,36
9,400-406,419,995
> Gi0/2
1,10,12,20,25,28,30-33,35-41,44-45,48,52,54-55,60,130,341,351-352,361,36
9,400-406,419,995
> 
> Port        Vlans in spanning tree forwarding state and not pruned
> Fa0/45      1,41,44,351,361,400
> Fa0/46      1
> Fa0/47
1,10,12,20,25,28,30-33,35-41,44-45,48,52,54-55,60,130,341,351-352,361,36
9,400-406,419,995
> Gi0/1
1,10,12,20,25,28,30-33,35-41,44-45,48,52,54-55,60,130,341,351-352,361,36
9,400-406,419,995
> Gi0/2       1,41,403-406
> 
> 
> 
> On my 5500 I do the following:
> 
> 5500-OMCLAB (enable) show port capabilities 1/1
> Model                    WS-X5530
> Port                     1/1
> Type                     1000BaseSX
> Speed                    1000
> Duplex                   full
> Trunk encap type         802.1Q,ISL
> Trunk mode               on,off,desirable,auto,nonegotiate
> Channel                  no
> Broadcast suppression    percentage(0-100)
> Flow control
receive-(off,on,desired),send-(off,on,desired)
> Security                 no
> Membership               static
> Fast start               yes
> QOS                      n/a
> Rewrite                  no
> UDLD                     Capable
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 5500-OMCLAB (enable) show port 1/1
> Port  Name               Status     Vlan       Level  Duplex Speed
Type
> ----- ------------------ ---------- ---------- ------ ------ -----
------------
>  1/1  Trunk to lab_3550_ connected  trunk      normal   full  1000
1000BaseSX
> 
> Port   Trap      IfIndex
> -----  --------  -------
>  1/1   disabled  224    
> 
> Port     Broadcast-Limit Broadcast-Drop
> -------- --------------- --------------
>  1/1                   -              0
> 
> Port   Send FlowControl    Receive FlowControl   RxPause TxPause
Unsupported
>        admin    oper       admin    oper
opcodes
> -----  -------- --------   -------- --------     ------- -------
-----------
>  1/1   desired  off        off      off          0       0       0
> 
> 
> Port  Align-Err  FCS-Err    Xmit-Err   Rcv-Err    UnderSize
> ----- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------
>  1/1           0          0          0          0         0
> 
> Port  Single-Col Multi-Coll Late-Coll  Excess-Col Carri-Sen Runts
Giants
> ----- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- --------- ---------
---------
>  1/1           0          0          0          0         0         0
-
>         
> Last-Time-Cleared
> --------------------------
> Thu Apr 15 2004, 10:04:41
> 
> 
> 5500-OMCLAB (enable) show trunk
> Port      Mode         Encapsulation  Status        Native vlan
> --------  -----------  -------------  ------------  -----------
>  1/1      on           dot1q          trunking      1
>  1/2      on           dot1q          trunking      1
> 
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