Displaying IPX Counters

Field

Description

 

 

IPX Total Packets Received

Total number of data packets received.

IPX Local Transmits

Number of data packets transmitted,

 

originating from the access server.

IPX Local Receives

Number of data packets received that were

 

destined for the access server.

IPX Unknown Sockets

Number of data packets with unknown socket

 

addresses.

IPX Receive Discards

Number of data packets that were received

 

and discarded.

IPX Transmit Discards

Number of data packets discarded that were

 

ready for transmission.

IPX Hop Count Errors

The number of input datagrams dropped

 

because the access server was not their final

 

destination and their hop count would exceed

 

15 if forwarded.

FORWARD CACHE Packets

If there is no existing route to a destination

Received

network, the packet is cached and a routing

 

information request is sent out for the

 

network. This field shows how many such

 

data packets have been received.

FORWARD CACHE Receive

The field shows how many discarded data

Discards

packets were received for the cache.

FORWARD CACHE Overruns

This field shows how many cached data

 

packets were discarded.

FORWARD CACHE Packets

This field shows how many packets were

Transmitted

transmitted from forward cache after the

 

route was learned.

FORWARD CACHE Transmit

This field shows how many packets were

Discards

discarded that were ready for transmission

 

from the cache.

FORWARD CACHE Timeouts

This field shows how many packets were

 

discarded because the route was not learned.

RIP/SAP Requests Transmitted

Number of RIP/SAP request packets

 

transmitted.

 

 

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