CONFIGURING THE SWITCH

Parameter

Description

 

 

RMON Statistics

 

 

 

Drop Events

The total number of events in which packets

 

were dropped due to lack of resources.

 

 

Jabbers

The total number of frames received that were

 

longer than 1518 octets (excluding framing bits,

 

but including FCS octets), and had either an FCS

 

or alignment error.

 

 

Received Bytes

Total number of bytes of data received on the

 

network. This statistic can be used as a

 

reasonable indication of Ethernet utilization.

 

 

Collisions

The best estimate of the total number of

 

collisions on this Ethernet segment.

 

 

Received Frames

The total number of frames (bad, broadcast and

 

multicast) received.

 

 

Broadcast Frames

The total number of good frames received that

 

were directed to the broadcast address. Note that

 

this does not include multicast packets.

 

 

Multicast Frames

The total number of good frames received that

 

were directed to this multicast address.

 

 

CRC/Alignment Errors

The number of CRC/alignment errors (FCS or

 

alignment errors).

 

 

Undersize Frames

The total number of frames received that were

 

less than 64 octets long (excluding framing bits,

 

but including FCS octets) and were otherwise

 

well formed.

 

 

Oversize Frames

The total number of frames received that were

 

longer than 1518 octets (excluding framing bits,

 

but including FCS octets) and were otherwise

 

well formed.

 

 

Fragments

The total number of frames received that were

 

less than 64 octets in length (excluding framing

 

bits, but including FCS octets) and had either an

 

FCS or alignment error.

 

 

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