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166Appendix A WLAN Application Gateway 2246

•User Time Period—the length of time (in seconds) that statistics accumulate in the Userpkts column before resetting to zero. When troubleshooting a problem, use this setting to isolate statistics for a given time period (for example, one hour). This is the only field in this screen that can be changed by the user.

The rest of the display is a table of Ethernet statistics. The Pkts and User Pkts columns list the count of Ethernet packets received or transmitted. The Bytes column is the count of bytes received or transmitted during the amount of time indicated by the Stats Time Period.

•RX—number of packets and bytes received addressed to the WLAN Application Gateway 2246.

•RX Broadcast—the number of broadcast packets and bytes received.

•RX Multicast—the number of packets and bytes received with the multicast address. (A multicast message is sent to more than one destination on the network.)

•RX Not For Us—the number of multicast packets and bytes received that were not for the WLAN Application Gateway 2246.

•TX—the total number of packets and bytes transmitted.

•Interrupts—the number of times the Ethernet controller signals the microprocessor that it has received or sent a packet.

•Collisions—the number of times the Ethernet controller attempts to send a packet, but another device on the network transmitted at the same time, corrupting the transmission.

•Collision Drops—the number of packets the Ethernet controller discards, because there were over sixteen collisions. After sixteen collisions, the Ethernet controller hardware discards the current packet and attempts to send the next packet in its buffer.

•CRC Errors—the number of packets discarded by the Ethernet controller, because of a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) error.

Viewing the network status

From the System Status Menu screen, select Network Status.

The Network Status screen displays information about the Ethernet network. This information can help troubleshoot network problems.

Software versions

Each WLAN Application Gateway 2246 and handset runs software that is controlled and maintained through versioning. The Software Versions screen provides information about the version currently running on the

Nortel Communication Server 1000

WLAN IP Telephony Installation and Commissioning

NN43001-504 01.02 Standard

Release 5.0 15 June 2007

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