The SmartSwitch 2000 Chassis View
2-22 Viewing Chassis Information
Three informational fields appear in the upper portion of the window:
Description
Displays the interface description for the currently selected interface.
Address
Displays the MAC (physical) address of the selected interface.
Type
Displays the interface type of the selected port.
The lower portion of the window provides the following transmit and receive
statistics. The first four statistics are also displayed in pie charts.
Unicast
Displays the number of packets transmitted to or received from this interface that
had a single, unique destination address. These statistics are displayed in the pie
chart, color-coded green.
Non-Unicast
Displays the number of packets transmitted to or received from this interface that
had a destination address that is recognized by more than one device on the
network segment. The multicast field includes a count of broadcast packets —
those that are recognized by all devices on a segment. These statistics are
displayed in the pie chart, color-coded dark blue.
Discarded
Displays the number of packets which were discarded even though they
contained no errors that would prevent transmission. Good packets are typically
discarded to free up buffer space when the network becomes very busy; if this is
occurring routinely, it usually means that network traffic is overwhelming the
device. To solve this problem, you may need to re-configure your bridging
parameters, or perhaps re-configure your network to add additional bridges or
switches.
These statistics are displayed in the pie chart, color-coded magenta.
Error
Displays the number of packets received or transmitted that contained errors.
These statistics are displayed in the pie chart, color-coded red.
TIP
You can also access this information via the I/F Statistics option available on the
individual port menus; see Chapter 4, Statistics, for more information.