[comp.dcom.sys.cisco] dds line performance, what's good and bad?

leinwand@cisco.com (Allan Leinwand) (09/12/90)

Hello Michael,

   It is no uncommon for leased lines to have errors, especially those
inflicted by the provider...  

>Should I be worried about the magnitude of any of these counts or
>about the disparity between the two directions?

   I do not think the magnitude is a great problem.  Did you ever
disconnect the serial cable from the cisco during this week?  If you
disconnect the cable, the interface may see additional aborts.  If the
cable has never left the cisco, and the link was always operational
during the week, the question to ask is: Is the rate of errors
greater than 1% of the total amount of data transfered?  If the numbers
you showed us conern the transmission of 200Kb over the link, you may
have a problem.  If the numbers relate to 800Mb transfered over the
link, you might not have any concerns.


Thanks,

Allan Leinwand
cisco Systems
leinwand@cisco.com
(415) 688-7653

"Time was invented so that everything does not happen at once."
                    - Buckaroo Banzai

DORL@macc.wisc.edu (Michael (NMI) Dorl) (09/14/90)

I'm interested in knowing what the performance of a dds line as
measured by cisco 'show interface' statistics should look like.
We have recently installed the first of many such lines.  Twelve
days of operation shows the following statistics...
 
                         A ->  B           B -> A
 
   Input errors            77              3215
 
   Abort                   76              3213
 
   Output errors            0                 0
 
   resets                   0                 0
 
   carrier transitions     10                 2
 
Things like CRC, frame, over run, and ignore are always zero.
 
There have been no user complaints about the operation of the line.
 
Should I be worried about the magnitude of any of these counts or
about the disparity between the two directions?
 
Thanks,
 
Michael Dorl              (608) 262-0466  fax (608) 262-4679
dorl@vms.macc.wisc.edu    MACC / University of Wisconsin - Madison
dorl@wiscmacc.bitnet      1210 W. Dayton St. / Madison, WI 53706