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decalri

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November 18th, 2008 03:00

high latencies on routing interface on Powerconnect 6248

Hello

I have two vlan routed with one powerconnect 6248. All works right, but when many users turn on their computers in the morning or turn off in the afternoon, the routing interface gives many packet loss and high latencies between two vlans.

Which could be the reason?

Thank you very much

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    Posted November 18th, 2008 14:00

    Can you post the specific config of the Layer 3 interfaces of the two VLANs.....as this sounds very odd.

    How many client PC or hosts do you have in each VLAN...is it a classic /24 subnet with typically 250 hosts ?

    If you have a very large client PC base in a single VLAN.....i.e 500+ then you could have ARP or DHCP broadcasts on initial bootup causing problems - but not when logging off.

  • decalri

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    Posted November 19th, 2008 00:00

    Hello

    Thank you very much for your answer

    In one lan i have 200 clients aprox and in other 50

    This is the config file:

    '-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    !Current Configuration:
    !System Description "Dell 48 Port Gigabit Ethernet, 2.1.0.13, VxWorks5.5.1"
    !System Software Version 2.1.0.13
    !
    configure
    vlan database
    vlan  2-3
    vlan association subnet x.x.x.x 255.255.255.0 2
    vlan association subnet y.y.y.y 255.255.255.0 3
    exit
    stack
    member 1 2
    exit
    ip address 192.168.50.5 255.255.255.0
    ip routing
    ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 x.x.x.237
    router rip
    no enable
    exit
    interface vlan 2
    name "LAN_xxx"
    routing
    ip address  x.x.x.254  255.255.255.0
    no ip proxy-arp
    exit
    interface vlan 3
    name "LAN_yyy"
    routing
    ip address  y.y.y.254  255.255.255.0
    no ip proxy-arp
    exit
    username "admin" password xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx level 15 encrypted
    router ospf
    no enable
    no 1583compatibility
    exit
    !
    interface ethernet 1/g3
    switchport access vlan 2
    exit
    !
    interface ethernet 1/g4
    switchport access vlan 2
    exit
    !
    ...
    !
    interface ethernet 1/g24
    switchport access vlan 2
    exit
    !
    interface ethernet 1/g25
    switchport access vlan 3
    exit
    !
    ...
    !
    interface ethernet 1/g48
    switchport access vlan 3
    exit
    exit

    '--------------------------------------------------------------------

    Thank you very much

     

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    Posted November 19th, 2008 08:00

     

    For yor logon issue could i suggets you use this command on each PC /host interface :

     interface ethernet 1/g3

     spanning-tree portfast

    By enabling port-fast on each user PC port you will skip the listening learning stages of Spanning tree and go straight to forwarding of

    packets.

  • tester25

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    Posted November 19th, 2008 11:00

    If you enable port-fast on each of the PC ports, be careful about connecting other switches to those ports or causing a loop in your network.  Port fast effectively disables the benefits of Spanning Tree.  But I agree with Sentinel-master, you will see a decrease in the amount of time it takes before each of your PCs are able to send and receive packets when the NIC links up initially.

    But I have a feeling that the type of latency that you're talking about might be different.  Can you give a hypothetical scenario that describes your problem?  When you're seeing packet loss, are you seeing that on the host computers when doing pings or is your switch showing something indicating dropped packets or errors in its counters?

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    Posted November 21st, 2008 11:00

    One other thought I had related to PCs, is the default gateway, just want to check this piece of information from you.

    How have you assigned IP addresses to your PC hosts....is it via DHCP or static IP addressing.

    Either way what is the default IP gateway address of teh PC hosts ?

    .....is it the LAN IP address of the L3 switch interface ?

  • decalri

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    Posted November 24th, 2008 00:00

    Hello tester25

    Thank you for your answer

    I see the packet loss when i do a ping from one vlan1 computer to one vlan2, if i do a ping from vlan1 to vlan1 or vlan2 to vlan2 there is not packet loss.

     

  • decalri

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    Posted November 24th, 2008 00:00

    Hello sentinel-master

    Thank you very much for your answer

    I have DHCP in each vlan. and the gateway for pcs is the vlan ip interface for each vlan.

    Regards

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    Posted November 24th, 2008 15:00

    Okay that all makes sense -just wanted to make sure there was no other Layer hop or device involved.

    Just to test a theory can you do a ping from PC_VLan 2  to PC_VLAN_3 and vice versa - whats the results ?

    Avoid ping or using VLAN1 - as I want to see if the default management VLAN is related to loss.

  • decalri

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    Posted November 25th, 2008 00:00

    hello sentinel-master

    Thank you very much for your answer

    I did a mistake in before post. where i said vlan1 to vlan2, i should say vlan2 to vlan3 and vice versa. The result is the same, packet loss at the begin and at the end of work. From vlan2 to vlan2 everything is ok and the same for vlan3

     

    Thank you very much

    Kind regards

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    Posted November 25th, 2008 15:00

     

    This is bad news and is either a firmware bug - or the Layer 3 forwarding performance (between different VLANs) is getting hammered for soem reason.

    I noticed in your config you have both RIP & OSPF enable - do you need both these enabled at the same time, could you turn one or both  off just to chekc CPU performance and interface forwarding without them in config.