DELL 9.8(0.0) User Manual

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Description

– Broadcasts = number of MAC broadcast packets

• Number of runts, giants, and throttles packets:

– runts = number of packets that are less than 64B
– giants = packets that are greater than the MTU size
– throttles = packets containing PAUSE frames

• Number of CRC, overrun, and discarded packets:

– CRC = packets with CRC/FCS errors
– overrun = number of packets discarded due to FIFO 

overrun conditions

– discarded = the sum of runts, giants, CRC, and 

overrun packets discarded without any processing

Output Statistics:

Displays output statistics sent out of the interface including:

• Number of packets, bytes, and underruns out of the 

interface

• Packet size and the number of the packets outbound to 

the interface

• Number of Multicast, Broadcast, and Unicast packets:

– Multicasts = number of MAC multicast packets
– Broadcasts = number of MAC broadcast packets
– Unicasts = number of MAC unicast packets

• Number of VLANs, throttles, discards, and collisions:

– Vlans = number of VLAN tagged packets
– throttles = packets containing PAUSE frames
– discarded = number of packets discarded without 

any processing

– collisions = number of packet collisions
– wred=count both packets discarded in the MAC and 

in the hardware-based queues

Rate information... Estimate of the input and output traffic rate over a 

designated interval (30 to 299 seconds). Traffic rate is 
displayed in bits, packets per second, and percent of line 
rate.

Time since...

Elapsed time since the last interface status change 
(hh:mm:ss format).

Example

Dell#show interfaces

TenGigabitEthernet 2/1 is down, line protocol is down

Hardware is DellForce10Eth, address is 00:01:e8:8b:3d:e7

Current address is 00:01:e8:8b:3d:e7

Pluggable media present, Media type is unknown

Wavelength unknown

Interface index is 100992002

Internet address is not set

Interfaces

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