Chapter 5 - Monitoring and Testing the Campus System

The following information is displayed for the LAN and Line ports (for transmit and receive directions):

Statistic

Description

Monitored Port

LAN

Line

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rx Frames

The number of received frames.

 

 

 

 

Tx Frames

The number of transmitted frames.

 

 

 

 

Rx Multicasts

The number of multicast frames received.

 

 

 

 

Tx Multicasts

The number of multicast frames

 

transmitted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rx Discards

The number of received frames that have

 

been discarded (filtered).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rx Errors

The number of frames received in error

 

from both the input and output buffers

 

 

 

(such as CRC errors, alignment errors, and

 

 

 

dribbling bit errors).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tx Errors

The number of frames transmitted in error

 

from both the input and output buffers

 

 

 

(such as CRC errors, alignment errors, and

 

 

 

dribbling bit errors).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rx Undersized

The number of frames received that are

 

smaller than the Ethernet minimum of 64

 

 

 

bytes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rx Oversized

The number of frames received that exceed

 

the MTU size of 1536 bytes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tx Excessive

Frames discarded due to excessive

Delay

queuing time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tx Excessive

The number of excessive collision events

Collisions

that have occurred, that is. frames dropped

 

 

 

because of 16 consecutive collisions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

To update the statistics, type U then press ENTER .

To clear the counters, type C then press ENTER .

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