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SanYang's avatar
SanYang
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Oct 16, 2024

Problems with ping dropped packets

Hello Experts,   I've recently encountered a strange problem where the ping node drops packets (about 10-20%) when gtm1 is active, but when gtm1 is in standby, the ping node doesn't drop any packet...
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Jeff_Granieri
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Oct 17, 2024

The only thing I can glean from this setup is the trunk links between Po27 & SW6FA4-Internet1....   Could the ping traffic that's experiencing drops be hashed to a particular link in the port channel? *** Do during maintenance window *** if possible, disable one link between gtm1 & SW6FA4-Internet1.  monitor ping loss, restore then disable the other link.  You could have the traffic hashed onto one of the links in the port channel and its possible a bad patch.  

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SanYang
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Oct 19, 2024

OK , I will try it.

Thanks.