08-18-2023
07:47 AM
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08-18-2023
08:27 AM
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rupeshah
Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
30 second input rate 126000 bits/sec, 98 packets/sec
30 second output rate 1489000 bits/sec, 176 packets/sec
1736485480 packets input, 1256058118123 bytes, 8 total input drops
0 drops for unrecognized upper-level protocol
Received 16 broadcast packets, 259649 multicast packets
2279164813 packets output, 2674979208203 bytes, 18849153 total output drops
Output 8 broadcast packets, 330349 multicast packets
08-18-2023 07:51 AM
I send you message check it
08-18-2023 08:00 AM
Hello @ahmed.benabdalla9,
High values of "total output drops" might suggest that the interface is experiencing congestion, possibly due to traffic exceeding its capacity or network issues.
In other words, it indicates the number of times that packets were not sent out from the interface due to congestion or other issues. Output drops occur when the interface's output buffer becomes full and it cannot accommodate any more outgoing packets.
08-18-2023 08:52 AM
this might be an issue with buffer too ?
08-18-2023 04:07 PM
"what does mean when I have xxxxxxxxx total output drops"
It means, for xxxxxxxxx number of packets that should have been transmitted, they were not, they were discarded/dropped for various reasons. What are the reasons? They vary. Often it's some form of resource exhaustion, like overflowing an egress queue, but might be other causes, like a policer that's is limiting traffic to some rate below the interface's capacity. From what you've posted, alone, cannot tell more.
A related question is, are the drops, especially those shown in your posting "bad"? Again, insufficient information to say.
In general, drops if they occur, are often due to oversubscription of bandwidth, for such cases, they might be "normal", and for many protocols, provide feedback to the protocol to regulate its transmission rate (e.g. TCP).
Although it's unexpected, zero drops isn't necessarily a "good" thing, just as any drops isn't necessarily a "bad" thing,
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