The Switch Menu
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Displaying Token Ring Switch Statistics

In Release 3.4 and later, you can display statistics for the new generation of Token Ring
modules known as “Bigfoot” (e.g., TSM-CD-16W, TSX-CD-16W, and TSX-C-32W). For exam-
ple, if you want to display the switch statistics for a Token Ring port on Port 1 on Slot 4,
enter:
swch 4/1
at the system prompt. Press r and then press <Enter> at the prompt. Something like the follow-
ing displays:
n={e,s,2,3},quit,save,? (?) : r
Token Ring Statistics for 4/16 Mbit Token Ring port 4/1/Brg/1
Rx MAC Good Bytes 0 Rx LLC Good Bytes 0
Rx Total Mac Packets 0 Rx Total LLC Packets 0
Rx MAC Errored Bytes 0 Rx LLC Errored Bytes 0
Rx Unicast Packets 0 Tx Unicast Packets 0
Rx Multicast Packets 0 Tx Multicast Packets 0
Rx Broadcast Packets 0 Tx Broadcast Packets 0
Rx Buffer Discards 0 Tx Buffer Discards 0
Rx Error Discards 0 Tx Error Discards 0
Ring Purge Events 0 Ring Purge Packets 0
Beacon Events 0 Beacon Packets 0
Claim Token Events 0 Claim Token Packets 0
Internal Errors 0 Line Errors 0
Burst Errors 0 AC Errors 0
Abort Errors 0 LostFrame Errors 0
Congestion Errors 0 Frame Copied Errors 0
Frequency Errors 0 Token Errors 0
Soft Errors 0 Ring Poll Events 0
Internal Errors 0 NAUN Changes 0
Received 18_63 byte Pkts 0 Received 64_127 byte Pkts 0
Received 128_255 byte Pkts 0 Received 256_511 byte Pkts 0
Received 512_1023 byte Pkts 0 Received 1024_2047 byte Pkts 0
Received 2048_4097 byte Pkts 0 Received 4096_8191 byte Pkts 0
Received 8K_18000 byte Pkts 0 Received 18000+ byte Pkts 0
n={e,s,2,3},quit,save,? (r) : ?
Note that the default option is now r. If you press <Enter>, the switch statistics will be redis-
played.
The fields displayed by the r option of the swch command for Token Ring are described
below.
The first group of statistics are the numbers of bytes transmitted and received. These are
useful in working out bandwidth usage by the port. Bad octets are important to count in the
total octets count as they consume bandwidth at the expense of useful traffic. To ignore them
would lead to mysterious loss of bandwidth in any calculations performed.
Rx MAC Good Bytes. The total number of bytes received in good Media Access Control (MAC)
packets. (MAC packets are used for management of the Token Ring network.)
Rx LLC Good Bytes. The total number of bytes received in good Logical Link Control (LLC)
packets. (LLC packets are used to transfer data.)
Rx Total MAC Packets. The total number of bytes received in MAC packets.
Rx Total LLC Packets. The total number of bytes received in LLC packets.
Rx MAC Errored Bytes. The total number of bytes received in bad MAC packets.