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Mathew,

Is the dropped traffic crossing the Exchange from the 4200 to one of the
other switches or is it random?

Thank you,


*Levi Pederson*
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On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Matthew Beckwell <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Greetings,
> I wanted to see if anyone here has any thoughts on a small amount (<1%) of
> packet loss I've been trying to chase down, specific to the MICE EX4200
> switch.
>
> Aitech/AS13746 has a 1G copper port on the EX4200 switch.  It seems that
> we're seeing a small amount of outbound packet loss (1G to 10G) going
> participants outside of the EX4200 switch.
>
> I might expect this going from 10G to 1G (inbound for us), but it's the
> opposite where we see the problem: 1G to 10G participants.
>
> Doug at ipHouse (ge-1/0/3 on the EX4200) fired up iperf and we did some
> testing. They're in the same situation: Loss leaving the EX4200.
> Specifically, I was testing over to US Internet (xe-0/0/14) but seeing it
> via Onvoy as well.
>
> The iperf test I was running was UDP, bandwidth of 69000, and packet size
> of 172, running in both directions.  Essentially--emulating a G.711 SIP
> call (which is how I noticed the loss).  I tested with no loss in both
> directions within the EX4200.
>
> Doug mentioned:
>
> >I pulled the VC chassis stats, but it has nothing for drops or
> re-transmits for it.
>
> Maybe some of our Juniper-centric members have suggestions?  It's quite
> possible it's always been like this-- the loss is small enough that's
> managed to evade monitoring.  I suspect everyone on the EX4200 is affected.
>
> ~Matthew
>
>
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