C H A P T E R 2

Intel Express 10/100 Fast Ethernet Switch

To check traffic on a port

1Determine the port you want to check.

2Type the command. For example:

SYS_console> get-br-cnt 3

Ethernet Switching Counters for port 3

====================================================

Frm

Received OK :

1419681

 

Bytes Received

: 842637991

 

Frm Filtered

:

0

 

Frm to all ports

:

0

 

Frm multicast

:

16017

 

Frm lost/fctrl

:

0

 

Transmit OK

:

1404387

 

Forward to port

:

FRAMES

BYTES

-----------------------------------------------------

1

:

0

0

2

:

0

0

3

:

218103808

60

4

:

1419823

842711315

5

:

0

0

6

:

0

0

7

:

0

0

====================================================

In this example, a station on port 3 is accessing a server on port 4. To reduce the amount of traffic crossing the switch, connect the server to a hub on port 3 instead of a hub on port 4. This keeps traffic localized to the same segment.

3Repeat steps 1 and 2 for each port on the switch and for each command listed on the previous page.

26

Page 30
Image 30
Intel 10/100 manual To check traffic on a port