Paradyne 8540, 8546 manual Physical Layer Options 1, Active List Active Ports List

Monitoring the Hotwire DSL System

Table 4-2. Physical Layer Options (1 of 5)

Active List (Active Ports List) B-B-A

Displays a list of the current status of all the active ports (e1a = Ethernet;

s1b = backplane; s1c, s1d, s1e, and s1f = DSL cards) in the card such as the port number, port name, port type, MAC address, and status of the port (in use or disconnected).

Num – SNMP ID number.

Name – System name.

Description – Type of port.

MAC Address – MAC address of the active port. (Internal dummy address used for non-Ethernet ports.)

Status – Active, disconnected, in-use.

Ether Statistics (Ethernet Statistics) B-B-B

Displays a list of the Ethernet statistics of the LAN port (e1a).

You may press Ctrl-r at any time to reset counters.

Port – Type of port (e1a).

Initialized Ethernet Ports – e1a (There is only one other net port on the card).

LAN Address – LAN (or MAC) address of the Ethernet port.

Bytes Received – Number of bytes received by the Ethernet port.

Packets Received – Number of packets transmitted by the Ethernet port and what type (multicasts, broadcasts, flooded, local origin, queued).

–Multicasts – Single packets copied to a specific subset of network addresses.

–Broadcasts – Messages sent to all network destinations.

–Flooded – Information received, then sent out to each of the interfaces.

–Filtered – Processes or devices that screen incoming information.

–Discarded – Packets discarded.

Errors – Number of errors transmitted by the Ethernet port and what type.

–Overruns – No buffer space.

–Bad CRC – Cyclic Redundancy Check.

–Framing – Receiver improperly interprets set of bits within frame.

–Jumbo-Gram – Ethernet packet too long.

–Overflow – Part of traffic that is not carried.

–Buffer – No buffer space.

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