PORT STATS

[jonks]

Can somone please help me and let me know what a rapidly increasing amount of filtered packets can be caused by.

This is an output from a gigabit link on a nortel 450 switch. the Gig link goes to a passport 8600

Port Statistics
Unit: [ 3 ] Port: [ 25 ]
Received Transmitted
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Packets: 957924 Packets: 853230
Multicasts: 121790 Multicasts: 422
Broadcasts: 3803 Broadcasts: 1564
Total Octets: 269719902 Total Octets: 289322650
Lost Packets: 0 Lost Packets: 0
Packets 64 bytes: 435290 Packets 64 bytes: 94
65-127 bytes 119791 65-127 bytes 205650
128-255 bytes 227109 128-255 bytes 355689
256-511 bytes 33802 256-511 bytes 140150
512-1023 bytes 49182 512-1023 bytes 91371
1024-1518 bytes 92750 1024-1518 bytes 60276
Pause Frames: 0 Pause Frames: 0
Undersized Packets: 0
Oversized Packets: 0
Filtered Packets: 104394
Flooded Packets: 3
FCS Errors: 0

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[jimbopalmer]

Filtered packets are packets not destined for any port on the 450, My guess (and it is just a guess) is that you have added ports on the 8600 in the same LVAN as the 450, which talk a lot to each other. That traffic can be thrown out by the 450. I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.