Cabletron Systems SEHI100TX- User Manual

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Chapter 7: Local Management
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SEHI100TX User’s Guide
OOW COLLISIONS
Displays the number of Out Of Window collisions. OOW collisions are 
usually caused by the network being too long where the round trip 
propagation delay is greater than 51.2 
µ
s (the collision domain is too 
large), a station somewhere on the network is violating Carrier Sense and 
transmitting at will, or a cable somewhere on the network failed during 
the transmission of the packet.
CRC ERRORS
Displays the number of packets with bad Cyclic Redundancy Checks 
(CRC) that have been received from the network. The CRC is a 4-byte 
field in the data packet that ensures that the transmitted data that is 
received is the same as the data that was originally sent.
ALIGNMENT ERRORS
Displays the number of errors due to misaligned packets.
RUNT PACKETS 
Displays the number of runt packets received from the network. A runt 
packet is less than the minimum Ethernet frame size of 64 bytes, not 
including preamble.
GIANT PACKETS
Displays the number of packets received that exceed 1518 data bytes, not 
including preamble.
PORT ADMIN. STATUS
Displays the administrative status of the port selected. The two possible 
status messages are Enable or Disable.
PORT SEG. STATUS
Displays the segmentation status of the port selected. The two possible 
status messages are Segmented or Unsegmented. The SEHI and SEH 
automatically partition problem segments, and reconnect non-problem 
segments to the network.
ENABLE PORT
This command lets the user enable the selected port.
DISABLE PORT
This command lets the user Disable the selected port.
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