7-6 CHAPTER 7: ADMINISTERING ETHERNET PORTS

Frame Processing and

All frames on the Ethernet network are received promiscuously by an

Ethernet Statistics

Ethernet port. However, frames may be discarded for the following reasons:

There is no buffer space available.

 

The frame is in error.

 

 

Figure 7-1 shows the order in which these discard tests are made.

 

Receive Frame. . .

. . .from Ethernet

 

Network

rxFrames

noRxBuffers

rxInternalErrs lengthErrs alignmentErrs fcsErrs

rxUcastFrames rxMcastFrames

Frames received from the network

Frames discarded because buffer space was exhausted

Frames discarded because frame in error

=Frames delivered by this Ethernet port

processing of frames

Figure 7-1 How Frame Processing Affects Ethernet Receive Frame Statistics

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3Com 2200 manual There is no buffer space available Frame is in error