Cabletron Systems 3Com manual Ethernet Statistics, Radio Frequency

38CHAPTER 3: MONITORING STATISTICS

Select any other item or click Access Point at the top of the navigation pane to exit.

Ethernet Statistics	The AP keeps Ethernet performance statistics, including packet transmission and
	data retries, until it is reset.
	To view or change Ethernet statistics, select Statistics-->Ethernet Statistics.

Statistic	Definition
Packets Seen	Packets received on the Ethernet interface.
Packets Forwarded	Packets forwarded from the Ethernet interface to other
	interfaces.
	■ Discarded/No Match—Packets discarded because of
	unknown destinations (destinations not in the known list
	of database entries).
	■ Discarded/Forced—Packets discarded because of the
	applied address filters.
	■ Discarded/Buffer—Packets discarded because of
	insufficient buffers in AP.
	■ Discarded/CRC—Packets discarded because of data errors.
Broadcast/Multicast	Total broadcast or multicast packets received.
Individual Address	Packets received with designated individual addresses.
Packets Sent	Total packets sent out.
Any Collision	Packets affected by at least one collision.
1 + Collisions	Packets affected by more than one collision.
Maximum Collisions	Packets affected by the maximum number of collision.
Late Collisions	Collisions occurring after the first 64 bytes.
Defers	The number of times the AP had to defer transmit requests on
	the Ethernet because of a busy medium.

	You can dynamically update this information by using the Refresh option. Click
	Start Refresh at the bottom of the page to update the values approximately once
	every two seconds. Click Stop Refresh at the bottom of the page to terminate
	dynamic updates.
	Select any other item or click Access Point at the top of the navigation pane to exit.
Radio Frequency	The AP keeps radio performance statistics, including packet and communication
Statistics	information.
	To view the Radio Frequency statistics, select Statistics-->RF.
	You can dynamically update this information by using the Refresh option. Click
	Start Refresh at the bottom of the page to update the values approximately once
	every two seconds. Click Stop Refresh at the bottom of the page to terminate
	dynamic updates.
	Select any other item or click Access Point at the top of the navigation pane to
	escape from the Ethernet Statistics page.