Chapter 5 Managing Physical Ports

Displaying Counter Information for a Physical Port

You can view general counter information for all physical ports by using the command: pport show counters.

There are two additional counter commands available only for DS3 modules that will display DS3-specific counter information:

pport show ds3counters

pport show plcpcounters

Displaying counter information for all physical ports

To display counter information for all physical ports, enter the pport show counters command.

Command:

M4-DS3s8:/>pport show counters

 

 

 

Output:

Physical Port Counters

 

 

 

 

 

----------------------

 

 

 

 

 

Port

Tx

Rx

Tx

Rx

Rx

 

ID

Cells

Cells

Discar

Discar

Errors

 

 

 

 

ds

ds

 

 

8.0

151971

128993

0

0

0

 

8.1

0

0

0

0

0

 

8.2

0

0

0

0

0

 

8.3

279163

101045

0

0

0

 

8.4

310163

131011

0

0

0

(Port 5 = Backplane, Port 0 = Cpu)

The pport show counters command displays the information described in Table 5.2.

Table 5.2

Output from the pport show counters command

 

 

 

Field

 

Description

 

 

 

 

 

 

Port Id

 

The physical port. This is displayed in the format <slot>.<port>

 

 

 

Tx Cells

 

The number of cells that have been transmitted through the

 

 

physical port.

 

 

 

Rx Cells

 

The number of cells that have been received through the physical

 

 

port.

 

 

Tx Discards

The number of transmitted cells that have been discarded.

 

 

Rx Discards

The number of received cells that have been discarded.

 

 

 

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