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Table 3-9 Port Statistics (Continued)

Parameter

Description

 

 

Multiple Collision

A count of successfully transmitted frames for which

Frames

transmission is inhibited by more than one collision.

 

 

Carrier Sense Errors

The number of times that the carrier sense condition

 

was lost or never asserted when attempting to transmit

 

a frame.

 

 

SQE Test Errors

A count of times that the SQE TEST ERROR message

 

is generated by the PLS sublayer for a particular

 

interface.

 

 

Frames Too Long

A count of frames received on a particular interface that

 

exceed the maximum permitted frame size.

 

 

Deferred Transmissions

A count of frames for which the first transmission

 

attempt on a particular interface is delayed because the

 

medium was busy.

 

 

Internal MAC Receive

A count of frames for which reception on a particular

Errors

interface fails due to an internal MAC sublayer receive

 

error.

 

 

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.

 

 

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