Gigabit Ethernet Card Statistics
Explanation of Card Statistics
Explanation of Card Statistics
Following are descriptions of the card statistics that are output from the lanadmin(1M) command.
Field | Description |
Driver Statistics |
|
In Packet Error | Number of inbound packets discarded because they |
| were received when the driver was not operational or |
| the packet length was incorrect. |
Out Packet Error | Number of outbound packets discarded because the |
| driver was not operational or the driver had |
| insufficient resources (Memory) to transmit the |
| packet. |
Loopback packets | Number of packets looped back to the upper layers by |
| the driver. |
Link Down events | Number of link down events, i.e., cable disconnects |
| processed by the driver. |
Host Command Statistics |
|
nicCmdsDelMCastAddr | Number of times the driver has issued a command to |
| the NIC to delete a multicast MAC address. |
nicCmdsSetPromiscMode | Number of times the NIC received a command to |
| enable or disable promiscuous mode. |
nicCmdsSetMACAddr | Number of times the NIC received a command to set |
| the current MAC address. |
nicCmdsClearStats | Number of times the NIC received a command to |
| clear the card statistics maintained by the card. |
NIC Events Statistics |
|
nicEventsFirmwareOperational | The number of events the driver has received from |
| the NIC indicating that the firmware on the NIC is in |
| the operational state. |
nicEventsStatsUpdated | The number of times the NIC has updated the MIB |
| interface statistics. |
nicEventsLinkStateChanged | The number of events the driver has processed |
| indicating that the status of the link has changed. |
nicEventsMCastListUpdated | The number of times the NIC generated an event to |
| report the addition or deletion of a multicast MAC |
| address. |
Interface Statistics |
|
These are the MIB statistics collected by the card as documented in RFC1066.
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