Intermittent from core switch to server farm(layer 2)

[Marchand Satriawan]

Hi Fellas,

i wanna ask about intermittent at my server farm. the freak me out is ping between user to application is good, however ping between user to ip management switch(server farm) is intermittent. i have no idea for this issue.

i have checked :

1. spanning tree (good)

2. layer 1 (good)

actually this issue is not critical because user still can access application without issue but while i ssh/telnet to switch always dc and dc again.

i am very appreciate for any suggestion

[Joseph W. Doherty]

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Posting

Cisco switches don't prioritize ping responses, instead they prioritize forwarding frames.  What this means is pinging a switch's management IP often shows very variable response times.

PS:

To allow pings to be a more accurate indication of end-to-end latency, using Cisco device IPs, some devices support a special SLA responder, which will note when the ping query is received and indicate interior delay in the ping reply.  This allows a much more accurate ping response.

[Marchand Satriawan]

"Cisco switches don't prioritize ping responses" i aggreed with you but it still doesnt meant i hard to ssh/telnet my switch

[Joseph W. Doherty]

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Posting

I'm sorry, I didn't understand from your OP that "dc" was disconnect(?).  I.e. your question is more than just about erratic and variable ping times to the Cisco device?

Also a bit lost in understanding your post "but it still doesnt meant i hard to ssh/telnet my switch", specifically "i hard".  Could you clarify?

If you're saying you keep losing ssh/telnet access to your device, that's not normal.  Of course, it's not possible exec timeout is causing this, correct?

[Marchand Satriawan]

Hi Joseph,

sorry for my english, yes you are right i am keep losing ssh/telnet to my device. the strange is why intermittent is not affect to application but only happen in management ip switch (server farm).

topology

core switch - server farm - application

[Parvesh Paliwal]

Can you confirm if the same is behind some firewalls i.e. you are behind the firewall - on other side ?

Second, what is ssh version in use ?

[Marchand Satriawan]

no firewell between core switch and server farm.

i am using ssh version 2.

i attached new picture, its very weird. i never face this issue before.