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teten
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Packet loss Fortigate 80c

I'm currently new in Fortigate and still learning and I hope anyone can help me with this. Our company has Fortigate 80c v 5.0. We have 2 ISP, 10 mbps and 25 mbps. Approximately around 80+ workstation and 40 VOIP phones. I am using the ISP with 25 mbps much more than the other because it's faster. I have a traffic shaping making voice, realtime and rdp as high priority while the remaining will be use by others. Our client notice that we have unstable internet connection on phones. I check with our ISP and said that they conducted a test and found no irregularities with the connection. I installed ping plotter to check the hop and I notice that first hop which is the fortigate is having a huge packet loss. Is there a way to diagnose which causes that packet loss? It's really driving me nuts for weeks now. Hope someone respond. Thanks.  

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MikePruett
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Need to know more about your environment.

 

Flat network or multiple vlans?

All vlans terminate on gate?

All traffic jumping from vlan to vlan via the same port?

 

Anytime I have experienced huge packet loss at the Gate level it has been tied to physical layer (cable, sfp, etc) or the port(s) are all on the same NPU/ASIC causing spikes that make it drop packets.

 

The 80C is old. Probably time to move to an E model as it will peform substantially better anyways.

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teten

Hi Mike. We don't have VLAN just a flat network.  Sorry but I'm not familiar, What is NPU/ASIC? 

teten
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You can see on the pic the packet loss starts on the first hop. But when you check other destination it doesn't have packet loss. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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