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Chapter 4 - Operation and Administration BTS Menu
BreezeMAX Extreme 116 System Manual
4.5.7 Performance Counters
The Performance Counters menu enables viewing and resetting the Traffic
counters of the Data Ethernet interface and of the Data Path. The displayed
information and counters include:
4.5.7.1 Ethernet
General Interface Details
MTU: The size of the largest packet which can be sent/received on the
interface, specified in octets.
Speed and Duplex After Negotiation: The speed of the interface in bits per
second.
BTS MAC Address: The MAC address of the interface.
BTS IP Address: The Management IP address of the BTS.
Operational Status: The current operational state of the interface
(Up/Down/Testing). The Testing state indicates that no operational packets
can be passed.
Ethernet Interface Counters:
Received Bytes: The number of octets in valid MAC frames received on this
interface, including the MAC header and FCS.
Received Unicast Packets: The number of packets received on this interface,
which were not addressed to a multicast or broadcast address.
Received Multicast Packets: The number of packets received on this interface,
which were addressed to a multicast address.
Received Broadcast Packets: The number of packets received on this interface,
which were addressed to the broadcast address.
Received And Discarded Packets: The number of received packets which were
chosen to be discarded without being delivered to a higher layer protocol, even
though no errors had been detected. One possible reason for discarding such a
packet could be to free up buffer space.