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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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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.