Comments on: Why would my L3 switch drop 20-80% of my pings? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/why-would-my-l3-switch-drop-20-80-of-my-pings/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:28:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: labnuke99 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/why-would-my-l3-switch-drop-20-80-of-my-pings/#comment-57117 labnuke99 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:29:59 +0000 #comment-57117 One thing to note is that GUI’s are often faulty. Command line access is still probably the best and most accurate configuration method.

]]> By: labnuke99 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/why-would-my-l3-switch-drop-20-80-of-my-pings/#comment-57116 labnuke99 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:29:08 +0000 #comment-57116 Glad to assist! Good luck.

]]> By: zork626 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/why-would-my-l3-switch-drop-20-80-of-my-pings/#comment-57114 zork626 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:33:26 +0000 #comment-57114 Thanks for the information; this made life so much easier having someone give me some feedback.
Well it looks like the Dell GUI has a bug. It claims that the VLAN interface is 10 half and the Port page says 1000 full. Since the LEDs show 1000 and the other end of the cable shows 1000 I’m tending to believe the 1000.
Nothing really “fixed” my problem, but power cycling the L3 switch cleared everything up. Pings work and my VLANs work great.

As I expected, the VLANs are overkill but we might be able to use this functionally in future for security issues etc.

Thanks again,
Brian

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