Access Server Administrators’ Reference Guide

15 • Interfaces

 

 

Interface Details

When you click on a Details link, the type and description of the interface, speed, status, maximum size of pro- tocol data units (PDUs), and physical address display (see figure 74). The SNMP variables for this table are ref- erenced through the SNMP MIB interfaces table.

Figure 74. Interface Details window

Description (ifDescr)

A textual string containing information about the interface. This string should include the name of the manu- facturer, the product name and the version of the hardware interface.

Type (ifType)

The type of interface, distinguished according to the physical/link protocol(s) immediately “below” the net- work layer in the protocol stack. The following interface types are available:

other(1)

ethernet-csmacd(6)

iso88023-csmacd(7)

ds1(18)

e1(19)

basicISDN(20)

primaryISDN(21)

ppp(23)

softwareLoopback(24)

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