Hi everyone,
Can anyone give me tips on what Receive/Transmit Errors and Discards really mean? I'm trying to use the built-in Top-10 Errors Today summary chart to go through our network and fix problems. I managed to fix some Transmit Discards by nailing down the autonegotiate settings on a switch and a server - whether the discards were due to collisions or a duplex mismatch I'm not sure. At present I have an interesting one, Transmit Errors looking like this:
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Any help on the specific issue and more general tips as well would be gratefully appreciated.
Thanks,
Anthony.
Anthony