Re: Excessive Broadcasts on Serial links?

From: PimpDaddy (ccie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Dec 07 2001 - 19:13:55 GMT-3


   
1.5MB*8/(24*3600)=138bits/sec.

That sure aint a whole lot if you ask me. Probably mostly comprised of
keepalives. Could be related to latency or dropped packets, though. What
do your interface counters look like? What app appears slow? What does a
continuous ping between the client station and app server look like?

Steve

> I have a client complaining of slow WAN links. He
> has 3 hub routers, each with about 5-7 remote links.
> They are all running OSPF. The remote sites are not
> configured as stub areas even though there is nothing
> behind them (I will remedy that).
> What I noticed was that the remote router Serial
> interfaces all had high 'out bcast bytes', that
> averaged out to 1.5 MB a day. Some of those routers
> have only been up 5 days and some of them have been up
> 15 weeks, but somehow they have all managed to average
> 1.5 MB a day. And the only thing I can think of that
> would show up as broadcasts on the Serial interface is
> OSPF and CDP.
> They only have 2 subnets listed under OSPF with a
> total of 50 routes when I do a show ip route. The show
> ip ospf database is relatively small too - I only need
> to hit spacebar once to see entire database.
> Anyone have any ideas if 1.5 MB is high? I think it
> is since there are not alot of routes and there
> shouldn't be any changes since it's a stub router. The
> 30 minute updates and CDP shouldn't contribute much
> either.
> Thanks.
>
> Michael Le, CCIE #6811
>



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