Chapter 5: Local Management

The following definitions explain each field of the Interface Statistics screen:

Interface (Read-only)

This field displays the Interface number for which statistics are currently being displayed. Figure 5-26shows the Interface field displaying 1. This represents port 1 of the 2H22-08R. To view other interface statistics, refer to Section 5.19.1.

Name (Read-only)

The Name field displays the type of interface for which statistics are being displayed.

InOctets (Read-only)

This field displays the total number of octets (bytes) that have been received on the Interface. This includes all octets from bad frames, and Frame Check Sequence (FCS) octets.

InUnicast (Read-only)

The InUnicast field displays the total number of packets that have been received that were sent to a single address.

InNonUnicast (Read-only)

This field displays the total number of packets that have been received that were delivered to a broadcast or multicast address.

InDiscards (Read-only)

The InDiscards field displays the total number of inbound packets that were discarded, even though the packets contained no errors. This field may increment because the switch needed to free up buffer space, or the switch was being overutilized.

InErrors (Read-only)

This field displays the total number of inbound packets that have been discarded because they contained errors. This field represents the total number of errored frames, regardless of the cause of the error.

InUnknownProtos (Read-only)

The InUnknownProtos field displays the total number of packets that were discarded because the packets were in an unknown, or unsupported, format.

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