User`s guide

Using the Local Terminal for Unit Setup and Management
User’s Guide
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BreezeNET PRO.11 Series
3.6.1 System Counters
The System counters are a simple yet efficient tool for monitoring, interpreting and
analyzing the Wireless LAN performance. The counters contain statistics
concerning Wireless and Ethernet frames. The sub-menu contains the following
options:
• Display Ethernet and WLAN Counters – Choose this option to display the
current value of the Ethernet and Wireless counters. Refer to Sections 3.6.1.1
and 3.6.1.2 for a detailed description of the counters.
• Display Rate Counters – Displays contents of packets at each rate. The AP
displays counters per station.
• Display Rx Packets per Frequency – Histogram of the number of frames
received on each channel.
• Reset Counters – Choose this option to reset all counters. After choosing this
option you will be requested to type 1 for confirmation or 0 to cancel the reset.
• Power Saving Counters – Displays the power saving counters per station, the
number of transmitted frames and the number of discarded frames. This
applies only to AP’s.
3.6.1.1 Ethernet Counters
Ethernet counters display statistics about the unit’s Ethernet port activity.
The unit receives Ethernet frames from its UTP port and forwards them to its
internal bridge, which decides whether or not to transmit them to the Wireless
LAN. The units have a smart hardware filter mechanism which filters most of the
frames on the LAN, and hardware filtered frames are not counted.
On the other side, frames which where received from the wireless LAN and some
frames generated by the unit (answers to SNMP queries and pings which reached to
the unit via the UTP port), will be transmitted to the UTP port.