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invalid traffic.

I have a client trailing xg but its dropping so much traffic there net is unusable.  If i cant sort it thats a missed opportunity.

What causes invalid traffic?

Ive not had this much issue with other clients.

 

JK



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  • Hi John,

    There are various reasons causing "invalid traffic", this could be an IP Packet with invalid header or Bad ICMP checksum, etc. The good news is we have the message body populated with the "reason" in v17's Log Viewer. Stay tuned.

    Thanks

  • sachingurung said:

    Hi John,

    The good news is we have the message body populated with the reason in v17's Log Viewer. Stay tuned.

    Thanks

    Sorry Sachin, but this Sales-guy-style Answer is not really helpful for him.
     
     
  • Sort of helps, anyway it doesnt look like an issue with XG now we took it out and put the old router back and its still dropping the net all the time.

    Ran a wireshark capture and it shows lots of DUP ACK requests and bad checksum traffic, seems there is an issue elsewhere but i just cant find the issue.  The switches are only semi managed & unmanaged with an uplink between the 2.  The semi managed has all its features off like STP & multicast snooping.  but somewhere the traffic is getting corrupted.

    I know its not XG related but anyone got any ideas which may help point me in the right direction?

    Thanks

    JK

  • Hi,

    this might seem silly, but check all the cables are clicked home on all devices. Remove one switch and see if that isolates the issue.

     

    Ian

  • Hi Huber,

    There is feature enhancement in v17, which will show you the reason why the traffic is classified as invalid traffic by XG. At present this is not populated in the message field or in the drop-captures and as I stated the issue was related to Bad Checksum value. I will take your point into consideration but the potential solution comes with v17. I may sound like a Sales executive in my previous response and thank you, I'll try to improve it. 

    Thanks

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  • Hi Huber,

    There is feature enhancement in v17, which will show you the reason why the traffic is classified as invalid traffic by XG. At present this is not populated in the message field or in the drop-captures and as I stated the issue was related to Bad Checksum value. I will take your point into consideration but the potential solution comes with v17. I may sound like a Sales executive in my previous response and thank you, I'll try to improve it. 

    Thanks

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