Token Ring -Specific Statistics

●FCS Violations – is the number of frames received that have failed the Frame Check Sequence (FCS) cyclic redundancy check (CRC).

●Copy Errors – is the number of frames received with duplicate addresses.

●Trans Absences – is the number of five half-bit time transitions. The counter is incremented every time transitions are not detected between SDEL and EDEL in a repeated frame.

●Frequency Errors – is the number of frames received with signal frequency problems.

●Frm with Aborts – is the number of frames that were aborted in mid transmission.

●Act Mon Regen – is the number of times the active monitor is lost and regen- erated.

●No Return Frms – is the number of frames that fail to return from around the ring due to a timeout or reception of another frame.

●Underruns – is the number of frames that were not accepted due to DMA (direct memory access) underrun errors.

●No Buff Avail – is the number of frames that could not be received/repeated due to lack of buffer space.

●A/C Errors – is the number of AMP and SMP MAC frames with AC (ARI/FCI) equal to zero when an intervening AMP MAC frame was not received.

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1800 specifications

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