The 9E312/9E423 Module View
(ifOutUcastPkts) “The number of subnetwork unicast packets delivered to a
A unicast is a transmission sent to only one station. This field displays the number of unicasts received from, or transmitted to, a
Multicast
(ifInNUcastPkts) “The number of
(ifOutNUcastPkts) “The number of
A multicast is a transmission which is simultaneously sent to more than one station at a time. This field displays the number of multicast packets (including broadcast packets) delivered to, or requested to be transmitted from, the higher- layer protocol.
Discarded
(ifInDiscards) “The number of inbound packets which were chosen to be discarded even though no errors had been detected to prevent their being transmitted. One possible reason for discarding such a packet could be to free up buffer space.”
(ifOutDiscards) “The number of inbound or outbound packets which were chosen to be discarded even though no errors had been detected to prevent their being deliverable. One possible reason for discarding such a packet could be to free up buffer space.”
Discarding good packets indicates a very busy network. If a device routinely discards packets it usually means that network traffic is overwhelming the device perhaps because the device is performing poorly.
Error
(ifInErrors) “The number of inbound packets that contained errors preventing them from being deliverable to a
(ifOutErrors) “The number of outbound packets that could not be transmitted because of errors.”
A count of bad packets.
Unknown Protocol
(ifUnknownProtos) “The number of packets received via the interface which were discarded because of an unknown or unsupported protocol.”
A device discards a packet and increments this counter if it can’t recognize the packet. This statistic appears only in the Input Table.
Transmit Queue Size
(ifOutQLen) “The length of the output packet queue (in packets).”
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