Cabletron Systems 9G421-02 User Manual

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9G421-02/9G429-02 Module Specific Information
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Port Statistics Screen Fields
 
The following information briefly explains each Port Statistics Screen field.
 
PORT #
 
Indicates the current port for which statistics are displayed.
 
OCTETS
 
Displays the number of octets transmitted and received on the port.
 
PACKETS
 
Displays the number of packets transmitted and received on the port.
 
TOTAL ERRORS
 
Displays the total number of errors on the port.
 
COLLISIONS 
 
Displays the total number of collisions detected on this port.
 
CRC/ALIGNMENT 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 data received is the same as the data that was originally sent. 
Alignment errors are due to misaligned packets.
 
UNDERSIZE PACKETS 
 
Displays the number of packets received whose size was less than the minimum 
Ethernet frame size of 64 bytes, not including preamble.
 
OVERSIZE PACKETS 
 
Displays the number of packets received whose size exceeded 1518 data bytes, 
not including preamble.
 
FRAGMENTS 
 
Displays the total number of packets received that were not an integral number of 
octets in length or that had a bad Frame Check Sequence (FCS), and were less 
than 64 octets in length (excluding framing bits but including FCS octets).
 
JABBERS 
 
Displays the total number of packets received that were longer than 1518 octets 
(excluding framing bits, but including Frame Check Sequence (FCS) octets), and 
were not an integral number of octets in length or had a bad Frame Check 
Sequence.
 
BROADCASTS 
 
Displays the number of broadcasts received.