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Subject:
Computer Network Duplicate IP Packets
Category: Computers Asked by: routerx-ga List Price: $10.00 |
Posted:
24 Nov 2003 10:13 PST
Expires: 25 Nov 2003 18:12 PST Question ID: 280056 |
My computer network is showing that every packet is transmitted twice and every packet is acknowledged twice. For instance, if I open Outlook, a traffic sniff will show that each packet shows up twice. This is true for our ENTIRE network. Performance is okay for now, but we obviously want to cut down on these duplicate IP packets. We just installed a Cisco 6500 switch which has greatly increased performance, but, this issue just started after we installed the switch. |
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Subject:
Re: Computer Network Duplicate IP Packets
From: m1975michael-ga on 25 Nov 2003 10:27 PST |
I assume that this is a multi-switch environment and they are connected in a redundant path. I believe that your problem is that you multiple active paths between the switches, which is causing loops. If a loop exists in the network, you might receive duplicate messages. When loops occur, some switches see stations on both sides of the switch. This condition confuses the forwarding algorithm and allows duplicate frames to be forwarded. Make sure you have the spanning tree protocol (STP) enabled on all VLANs. The default configuration has STP enabled for all VLANs. |
Subject:
Re: Computer Network Duplicate IP Packets
From: routerx-ga on 25 Nov 2003 18:11 PST |
We finally figured this one out. The span session was set on a port within vlan 100. We were capturing traffic for vlan 11 and vlan 100, therefore receiving duplicate packets. It seems odd that Cisco would not override this on the 6500 series switch, but it seems that is the case. Span sessions should be created on a port "out of" a vlan because span does not pull the port out of the vlan itself. |
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