Using the 7C0x SmartSwitch Hub View

Load — shows a value for each active port that represents that port’s traffic as a percentage of the theoretical maximum load: either 10 Mbps (for Ethernet), or 100 Mbps (for Fast Ethernet).

Packets — displays the number of good packets experienced by each interface in one of four ways:

-Packets/second — the rate of traffic being experienced by the port

-Average Packet Size — displayed in bytes; calculated by dividing the total number of octets by the total number of good packets

-Broadcast — the percentage of good packets on each port that are broadcast packets

-Multicast — the percentage of good packets on each port that are multicast packets

Collisions — displays the total number of receive (those the device detects while receiving a transmission) and transmit (those the device detects while transmitting) collisions, as a percentage of the total traffic experienced by the port.

Errors — displays the total number of packets with a specific error type, as a percentage of the total number of errors experienced by the port. Available error types are:

-CRC/Alignment — the number of packets processed by a port that had a non-integral number of bytes (alignment errors) or a bad frame check sequence (Cyclic Redundancy Check, or CRC error), expressed as a percentage of the total number of error packets experienced by the port.

-Fragments — the number of packets processed by a port that were undersized (less than 64 bytes in length; a runt packet) and had either a non-integral number of bytes (alignment error) or a bad frame check sequence (CRC error), expressed as a percentage of the total number of error packets experienced by the port.

-Jabbers — the number of packets processed by a port that were oversized (greater than 1518 bytes; a giant packet) and had either a non-integral number of bytes (alignment error) or a bad frame check sequence (CRC error), expressed as a percentage of the total number of error packets experienced by the port.

Frame Sizes — displays the total number of packets processed by a port that were of a specific size, expressed as a percentage of the total number of good packets experienced by the port. Frame size breakdowns available are:

-Runts (packets with fewer than 64 bytes)

-64

-65-127

-128-255

-256-511

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