Specifications

8-212 show switch counter Rapier Switch Software Reference
Software Release 2.7.3
C613-03098-00 REV A
Example To display the switching counters, use the command:
show switch counter
Related Commands reset switch
show switch
show switch port counter
Discards The number of packets waiting for transmission that were
discarded when the DMA process was reset due to an error.
Aborts The number of times transmission of a packet was aborted due to
it taking an excessive length of time for the transmission to
complete, perhaps due to a port being in a blocked state or due
to a busy PCI bus.
DescriptorAreaFilleds The number of times the transmit descriptor area filled due to a
high rate of transfer of packets from the CPU to the switch chip
or high PCI bus utilisation causing the DMA to proceed slowly.
QueueLength The number of packets currently queued for transmission, or that
have been transmitted and are waiting to be purged from the
transmit queue.
PCI bus counters
ParityErrors The number of times the switch chip reported a parity error for a
transaction on the PCI bus.
FatalErrors The number of times the switch chip reported a fatal error for a
transaction on the PCI bus.
ErrorChannel The DMA channel for making the transaction for which the error
occurred.
General counters
Resets The number of times the receive and transmit DMA channels have
been reset due to the occurrence of an error.
Table 8-56: Parameters in the output of the show switch counter command
Parameters Meaning