10G switch drops traffic for a split second

[jtk at depaul.edu (John Kristoff)]

On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 09:06:00 +0000
TJ Trout <tj at pcguys.us> wrote:

> Could this be MTU? I've tried flow control, hard code duplex, stp on/off etc
> I'm at a loss any ideas?

This sounds like a common problem that certain data center environments
run into with 10 Gb/s and higher loads.  In a nutshell, a simple
throw money at it solution to the problem is to use a switch with larger
buffers.

Nonetheless, there are plenty of good sources of material about the
phenomenon, such as:

  <http://fasterdata.es.net/network-tuning/router-switch-buffer-size-issues/>
  <https://people.ucsc.edu/~warner/buffer.html>

John