Hi, The number of discards shown is not that high, probably nothing to worry about. If you did want to track it down you would probably want to mirror a port and use wireshark to log the data and see if anything is dropping packets. 
Greetings,  If a 6248 shows "Receive Packets Discarded" on an interface(using the "show interface counters" command), what commands/methods are available for finding out why those packets were discarded on that particular interface? When I issue the(show interface counters), I am always showing quite a few discarded packets but all other errors listed in the same command are 0"  If I issue the "show ip stats", none of these values seem to be close to that interface.  Since this command is global, could it be the errors fall within one of these categories?  If not, what other commands can i use to track these errors down?  Here is an example. ------- show interface counters FCS Errors: ................................... 0 Single Collision Frames: ...................... 0 Late Collisions: .............................. 0 Excessive Collisions: ......................... 0 Multiple Collisions: .......................... 0 Oversize Packets: ............................. 0 Internal MAC Rx Errors: ....................... 0 Received Pause Frames: ........................ 0 Transmitted Pause Frames: ..................... 0 Receive Packets Discarded: .................... 9205 Transmit Packets Discarded: ................... 0 -------  -------show ip stats IpInReceives................................... 1775896 IpInHdrErrors.................................. 0 IpInAddrErrors................................. 96 IpForwDatagrams................................ 1553688 IpInUnknownProtos.............................. 28529 IpInDiscards................................... 0 IpInDelivers................................... 138206 IpOutRequests.................................. 172345 IpOutDiscards.................................. 0 IpOutNoRoutes.................................. 0 IpReasmTimeout................................. 60 IpReasmReqds................................... 0 IpReasmOKs..................................... 0 IpReasmFails................................... 0 IpFragOKs...................................... 0 IpFragFails.................................... 0 IpFragCreates.................................. 0 IpRoutingDiscards.............................. 0   IcmpInMsgs..................................... 349 IcmpInErrors................................... 0 --More-- or (q)uit IcmpInDestUnreachs............................. 0 IcmpInTimeExcds................................ 0 IcmpInParmProbs................................ 0 IcmpInSrcQuenchs............................... 0 IcmpInRedirects................................ 0 IcmpInEchos.................................... 349 IcmpInEchoReps................................. 0 IcmpInTimestamps............................... 0 IcmpInTimestampReps............................ 0 IcmpInAddrMasks................................ 0 IcmpInAddrMaskReps............................. 0 IcmpOutMsgs.................................... 121241 IcmpOutErrors.................................. 0 IcmpOutDestUnreachs............................ 120892 IcmpOutTimeExcds............................... 0 IcmpOutParmProbs............................... 0 IcmpOutSrcQuenchs.............................. 0 IcmpOutRedirects............................... 0 IcmpOutEchoReps................................ 349 IcmpOutTimestamps.............................. 0 IcmpOutTimestampReps........................... 0 IcmpOutAddrMasks............................... 0 -------   Any assistance in this matter would be appreciated.
6248 Discarded Packets