Chapter 5: Local Management
The following definitions explain each field of the Interface Statistics screen:
Interface
This field displays the Interface number for which statistics are currently being displayed. Figure
Name
The Name field displays the type of interface for which statistics are being displayed.
InOctets
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
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
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
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
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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