23 February, 2017

General Network Challenges

Unicast Flooding :

Reasons:
 
- Asymetric Routing 
- STP TCNs  
- Full MAC Table (Attack)

Solutions:
 
- STP Portfast Feature 
- Port Security Feature 
- Unknown Unicast and Multicast Flood Control Feature (UUFB,UUFRL,UMFB)

Impact Of Microbursts:


Short Spike - Overwhelms Capacity

Merging 4 Lanes into 3

Impact: 

- Delayed/Dropped Packets/Frames
- Congestion on Downstream Systems 
- SLA 
- Application Failure

Solution: 

 - QoS

Out Of Orden Packets:

Reasons:
- Multiple Paths (L2/L3)

- Qos Treatment 
- Route / Path Problems

Solutions:
 
- Session Based Path Selection (On Etherchannel, CEF and etc...)
- TCP Reassembly 
- Permit on Intermediate Devices (FW)