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MTU mismatch switching- buffer failure underruns

michmurphy
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I am connecting to a sonet ring where they have their MTU size set at 1546. They asked me to change my 3550 mtu to 1546. I did this with the system mtu command. How is this going to fix "output buffer failures" and "underruns" on my 3550?

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pradeepde
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--- Underruns ---

Description: The number of times that the transmitter has been running faster than the switch can handle. Common Causes: This can occur in a high throughput situation where an interface is being hit with a high volume of bursty traffic from many other interfaces all at once. Interface resets may be occurring along with the underruns.

--- output buffer failures ---

description: Cisco IOS sh interfaces counter. The number of failed buffers and the number of buffers swapped out. Common Causes: As an example, consider a scenario where a 1gig multicast stream is being forwarded to 24 100 Mbps ports. If an egress interface is over-subscribed, it would be normal to see output buffer failures incrementing along with Out-Discards.