Orion NPM shows a huge number of transmit discards (over 60 millions) on an interface of a Cisco 6313.
I don't see anything strange in show int g11/14:
GigabitEthernet11/14 is up, line protocol is up (connected)
Hardware is C6k 1000Mb 802.3, address is 0011.211c.301b (bia 0011.211c.301b)
Description: Fw-5000-02
MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit, DLY 10 usec,
reliability 255/255, txload 3/255, rxload 11/255
Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
Keepalive set (10 sec)
Full-duplex, 1000Mb/s, media type is 10/100/1000BaseT
input flow-control is off, output flow-control is on
Clock mode is auto
ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
Last input never, output 00:00:17, output hang never
Last clearing of "show interface" counters 00:43:13
Input queue: 0/2000/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 77
Queueing strategy: fifo
Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)
5 minute input rate 45829000 bits/sec, 7523 packets/sec
5 minute output rate 13395000 bits/sec, 5305 packets/sec
15255379 packets input, 9466545932 bytes, 0 no buffer
Received 296 broadcasts (0 multicasts)
0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
0 watchdog, 0 multicast, 0 pause input
0 input packets with dribble condition detected
11741462 packets output, 3884824147 bytes, 0 underruns
0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets
0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier, 58 PAUSE output
0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out
The following is the output of show counters interface g11/14
64 bit counters:
0. rxHCTotalPkts = 89952950644
1. txHCTotalPkts = 81999325361
2. rxHCUnicastPkts = 89947522017
3. txHCUnicastPkts = 81935978120
4. rxHCMulticastPkts = 0
5. txHCMulticastPkts = 50697567
6. rxHCBroadcastPkts = 5428627
7. txHCBroadcastPkts = 12649674
8. rxHCOctets = 68223222934531
9. txHCOctets = 61998507542116
10. rxTxHCPkts64Octets = 40064365356
11. rxTxHCPkts65to127Octets = 24067569028
12. rxTxHCPkts128to255Octets = 12930592680
13. rxTxHCPkts256to511Octets = 7421299421
14. rxTxHCpkts512to1023Octets = 8407135252
15. rxTxHCpkts1024to1518Octets = 79061314292
16. txHCTrunkFrames = 0
17. rxHCTrunkFrames = 0
18. rxHCDropEvents = 0
32 bit counters:
0. rxCRCAlignErrors = 0
1. rxUndersizedPkts = 0
2. rxOversizedPkts = 0
3. rxFragmentPkts = 0
4. rxJabbers = 0
5. txCollisions = 0
6. ifInErrors = 0
7. ifOutErrors = 0
8. ifInDiscards = 0
9. ifInUnknownProtos = 0
10. ifOutDiscards = 0
11. txDelayExceededDiscards = 0
12. txCRC = 0
13. linkChange = 21
14. wrongEncapFrames = 0
And I can see some discards by typing show int count errors module 11
Port Align-Err FCS-Err Xmit-Err Rcv-Err UnderSize OutDiscards
Gi11/1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gi11/2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gi11/3 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gi11/4 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gi11/5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gi11/6 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gi11/7 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gi11/8 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gi11/9 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gi11/10 0 0 0 0 0 77
Gi11/11 0 0 0 0 0 77
Gi11/12 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gi11/13 0 0 0 0 0 77
Gi11/14 0 0 0 0 0 77
Gi11/15 0 0 0 0 0 77
Gi11/16 0 0 0 0 0 77
Anyone can help?