PORT CONFIGURATION

Displaying LACP Port Counters

You can display statistics for LACP protocol messages.

 

Table 3-6 LACP Port Counters

Field

 

Description

LACPDUs Sent

 

Number of valid LACPDUs transmitted from this

 

 

channel group.

 

 

 

LACPDUs Received

 

Number of valid LACPDUs received on this channel

 

 

group.

 

 

 

Marker Sent

 

Number of valid Marker PDUs transmitted from this

 

 

channel group.

 

 

 

Marker Received

 

Number of valid Marker PDUs received by this channel

 

 

group.

 

 

 

LACPDUs Unknown

 

Number of frames received that either (1) Carry the

Pkts

 

Slow Protocols Ethernet Type value, but contain an

 

 

unknown PDU, or (2) are addressed to the Slow

 

 

Protocols group MAC Address, but do not carry the

 

 

Slow Protocols Ethernet Type.

 

 

 

LACPDUs Illegal Pkts

 

Number of frames that carry the Slow Protocols

 

 

Ethernet Type value, but contain a badly formed PDU

 

 

or an illegal value of Protocol Subtype.

 

 

 

Web – Click Port, LACP, Port Counters Information. Select a member port to display the corresponding information.

Figure 3-45 LACP - Port Counters Information

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