HP HSC/I 1000Base-SX manual Explanation of Card Statistics, Field Description Driver Statistics

Gigabit Ethernet Card Statistics

Explanation of Card Statistics

Explanation of Card Statistics

Following are descriptions of the card statistics that are output from the lanadmin(1M) command.

Field	Description
Driver Statistics
In Packet Error	Number of inbound packets discarded because they
	were received when the driver was not operational or
	the packet length was incorrect.
Out Packet Error	Number of outbound packets discarded because the
	driver was not operational or the driver had
	insufficient resources (Memory) to transmit the
	packet.
Loopback packets	Number of packets looped back to the upper layers by
	the driver.
Link Down events	Number of link down events, i.e., cable disconnects
	processed by the driver.
Host Command Statistics
nicCmdsDelMCastAddr	Number of times the driver has issued a command to
	the NIC to delete a multicast MAC address.
nicCmdsSetPromiscMode	Number of times the NIC received a command to
	enable or disable promiscuous mode.
nicCmdsSetMACAddr	Number of times the NIC received a command to set
	the current MAC address.
nicCmdsClearStats	Number of times the NIC received a command to
	clear the card statistics maintained by the card.
NIC Events Statistics
nicEventsFirmwareOperational	The number of events the driver has received from
	the NIC indicating that the firmware on the NIC is in
	the operational state.
nicEventsStatsUpdated	The number of times the NIC has updated the MIB
	interface statistics.
nicEventsLinkStateChanged	The number of events the driver has processed
	indicating that the status of the link has changed.
nicEventsMCastListUpdated	The number of times the NIC generated an event to
	report the addition or deletion of a multicast MAC
	address.
Interface Statistics

These are the MIB statistics collected by the card as documented in RFC1066.

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