OT: Transmit drops

I have an hp switch uplinked to a Cisco 4506R over 10GB ethernet. This link
averages about 600Mb of traffic but spikes up to around 1.5Gb. I've never
seen it spike over 2Gb per sec. The thing is this connection seems to have
a high number of transmit drops. Looking at the current statistics on the
interface statistics I see 3.5 Billion total frames with 440 million
transmit drops so over 10%. Why would an interface that is never maxed seem
to be dropping so many packets?

I don't see any errors that would make me suspect a bad cable or anything,
no FCS runts, giants, or collisions.

There is no queuing on this interface, would that help the situation?

-Marc

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Received on Thu Mar 08 2012 - 12:05:16 ART