C H A P T E R 5 Using Local Management

Packet Analysis

Local Management

LOCATION

Main Menu

Monitoring

Packet Analysis

Description

This screen displays a breakdown of the traffic received on a port by size and type of frame.

Select Port: Selects the port to view. Statistics are displayed one at a time. Press the z to toggle between the ports and the optional module.

Update interval: Press the z to select the time period between updates. For example, an update interval of 5 sec means the switch collects and displays information every five seconds.

Length: Indicates the number of frames received of different lengths. This also includes dropped frames and frames whose destination address is mapped to the receiving port. It does not include frames that contain errors.

Frames

Unicast: The number of error-free unicast frames received and transmitted on this port. Unicast frames are sent from one network node to another network node.

Broadcast: The number of error-free broadcast frames received and transmitted on this port. Broadcast frames are sent from one network node to all nodes on a segment.

Multicast: Tthe number of error-free multicast frames received and transmitted on this port. Multicast frames are sent from one node to multiple nodes on the segment.

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