Our Internet Cisco router is showing no interface errors, but Orion is showing interface transmit discard errors in the thousands. Shouldn't the counts match?
Out discards are not errors, strictly speaking. Rather, they're an indication that the device on transmit was unable to enqueue an outbound frame (and, hence, discarded it.) It is an indication of bandwidth congestion. Transmit errors are enqueued or transmitted frames that got borked on the way out.
Also, note that average utilization is a bad indicator of peak utilization. You can have a very low average utilization (depending upon polling interval, general traffic usage of an interface, etc) but still have out discards if there's a spike of traffic greater than link speed + egress buffer
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ok Cancel that Cancel, We turned off the two servers that we were policing and it is still generating the Discards. Now it's getting bad enough that while regular browsing isn't affected very often, large downloads, or sustained downloads stall out.
Packets dropped outbound due to QoS are also part of Output Drops(CISCO).
2000 an hour on 100Mbps and out of a large amount of packets shouldn't be hurting anything. Show policy-map interface [interface name with QoS policy) and look for packet drops from your policy f any.
If the input speed of other interfaces on the router is higher than the 100Mbps MPLS than you may be queuing up packets to fast to go out the link. Happens all the time when 100Mbps input feeds a DS3 out. If that's the case you need to QoS important traffic so most of the drops become less important traffic, drop the input interface speeds, or upgrade the MPLS.
ok So in doing the show policy map interface command I am seeing the Bandwidth policies that are in place, but its not showing any dropped. I am seeing where it is showing exceded stats, and I would hope that it was dropping those, but not sure on that.
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