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[professorguy]

I have a vlan interface on a router (Cisco 3750). Here is a picture of the traffic on that vlan:



<a href="http://professorguy.com/cisco/bounce.jpg">Traffic pattern</a>

My question is basically "Huh?" What type of problem is this. In every 30 second period there is at least some time where the bits per second reaches 0. I presume it is flapping because of a STP problem. Is it possible I have a routing loop that STP isn't dealing with? What else should I be looking for?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

[professorguy]

Had a little 8-port SMC EZ-Hub (EZ5808DS) out on the floor which dropped its connection every ~30 seconds and then immediately re-negotiated.

I threw that in the dumpster and replaced it with a Linksys 8-port switch (EZXS88W) and voila, normal traffic:



Hardware is always the last thing I suspect, but in this case, $45 at Staples solved the problem.

[globalchicken]

Thats good to know. So negotiation traffic spiked it that high? Thats nuts