Humm,  We have changed our remote office wan link duo to an outage and the interface stop counting errors. Everything is the same: traffic, applications, etc. Not a clue about what happened since there is a linux machine between the carrier equipment and the switch (bad packets would be dropped in the linux machine interface). We are now addressing the carrier for explanations/solutions. Thank you for your time!
Hello guys, I am having an issue on my network. Once in a while icmp echo packets are being lost and this is causing our monitoring system to trigger false alarms. I have checked the switches interfaces and found that the discarded packets counter is being incremented in one of them. Flow control is enabled on the interface and there are no Pause Frames being sent. The duplex on both ends are correct so are the port speeds.The switch firmware is 3.3.9.1 and the model is a PowerConnect 6248. show statistics ethernet 1/g48       Total Packets Received (Octets)................ 2019770477 Packets Received 64 Octets..................... 945800         Packets Received 65-127 Octets................. 1105872        Packets Received 128-255 Octets................ 152970         Packets Received 256-511 Octets................ 445738         Packets Received 512-1023 Octets............... 155436         Packets Received 1024-1518 Octets.............. 414040         Packets Received > 1518 Octets................. 634118         Packets RX and TX 64 Octets.................... 946019         Packets RX and TX 65-127 Octets................ 3294655        Packets RX and TX 128-255 Octets............... 235082         Packets RX and TX 256-511 Octets............... 893732         Packets RX and TX 512-1023 Octets.............. 311408         Packets RX and TX 1024-1518 Octets............. 436671         Packets RX and TX 1519-2047 Octets............. 873826         Packets RX and TX 2048-4095 Octets............. 0              Packets RX and TX 4096-9216 Octets............. 0              Total Packets Received Without Errors.......... 3853974        Unicast Packets Received....................... 3421088        Multicast Packets Received..................... 211575         Broadcast Packets Received..................... 221311         --More-- or (q)uitReceive Packets Discarded...................... 506Total Packets Received with MAC Errors......... 0Jabbers Received............................... 0              Fragments/Undersize Received................... 0              Alignment Errors............................... 0              FCS Errors..................................... 0              Overruns....................................... 0              802.3x Pause Frames Received................... 0              Unacceptable Frame Type........................ 0              Total Packets Transmitted (Octets)............. 858789293 Packets Transmitted 64 Octets.................. 219 Packets Transmitted 65-127 Octets.............. 2188783 Packets Transmitted 128-255 Octets............. 82112 Packets Transmitted 256-511 Octets............. 447994 Packets Transmitted 512-1023 Octets............ 155972 Packets Transmitted 1024-1518 Octets........... 22631 Packets Transmitted > 1518 Octets ............. 239708      Max Frame Size................................. 1518           Total Packets Transmitted Successfully......... 3137419 Unicast Packets Transmitted.................... 3034928 --More-- or (q)uitMulticast Packets Transmitted.................. 1628        Broadcast Packets Transmitted.................. 100863    Transmit Packets Discarded..................... 0Total Transmit Packets Discarded............... 0Single Collision Frames........................ 0              Multiple Collision Frames...................... 0           Excessive Collision Frames..................... 0              802.3x Pause Frames Transmitted................ 0              GVRP PDUs received............................. 0              GVRP PDUs Transmitted.......................... 0              GVRP Failed Registrations...................... 0              BPDU: sent 0, received 0EAPOL Frames Transmitted....................... 0EAPOL Start Frames Received.................... 0  Thanks in advance.
Inbound Packets Being Discarded On Dell 6248 Switch