Re: Validation of FCS

2012-12-24 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 24/12/2012 00:39, joel jaeggli wrote: > I have cut-through switches (arista) that log these as TX errors, they have > already left the barn at that point. it's a real pain when this happens because you have no idea of the ingress port and consequently the source of the data corruption source.

Re: Validation of FCS

2012-12-23 Thread joel jaeggli
On 12/19/12 7:02 AM, Saku Ytti wrote: On (2012-12-19 09:53 -0500), Jason Lixfeld wrote: Perhaps in simpler terms, a CRC error is a localized thing and would never be forwarded from one device to another. It would be forwarded in cut-through switching. I have cut-through switches (arista) that

Re: Validation of FCS

2012-12-19 Thread Saku Ytti
> ... until the bad frame reached the first store-and-forward switch (or most > any router) which would log the FCS error, correct? Log and drop yes. cut-through would log it also, but it would be too late to drop it. -- ++ytti

Re: Validation of FCS

2012-12-19 Thread Jason Lixfeld
On 2012-12-19, at 10:02 AM, Saku Ytti wrote: > On (2012-12-19 09:53 -0500), Jason Lixfeld wrote: > >> Perhaps in simpler terms, a CRC error is a localized thing and would >> never be forwarded from one device to another. > > It would be forwarded in cut-through switching. ... until the bad fr

Re: Validation of FCS

2012-12-19 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2012-12-19 09:53 -0500), Jason Lixfeld wrote: > Perhaps in simpler terms, a CRC error is a localized thing and would > never be forwarded from one device to another. It would be forwarded in cut-through switching. -- ++ytti