What causes transmit errors?

[Prizmm]

I am getting high transmit errors on one of my switch ports. It has peaked in the 7500 range. Can anyone tell me why this happens? I am not getting any Receive errors, just transmit. thanks!

 

[vipergg]

Number of transmit errors that occurred on the port (indicates that the internal transmit buffer is full).

 

[Prizmm]

great, thanks. Any ideas on how to fix it? Would it have anything to do with duplex mismatches? thanks

 

[burtsbees]

Not really duplex mismatches. You could set up pbr (policy based routing), which would prioritize the traffic type NOT giving you a issue, thus limiting traffic that is causing the buffer overflows.

Burt

 

[jneiberger]

PBR is a layer three technique. I don't know that it would have all that much use in solving this particular layer two problem.

Prizmm, can you paste the output of the interface statistics?

 

[burtsbees]

Whoops...this is the switches forum...sorry...

Burt