Specifications

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TCP/IP Network Characteristics
Internet Counter Display Fields
The following table describes the fields in a typical Internet counters display:
Field Description
TCP Segments The following counters contain statistics on TCP segments:
Transmitted: Total number of TCP segments transmitted by the access server.
The following counters are a breakdown of this total:
Data: Number of transmitted segments that contained data.
Data Retransmitted: Number of transmitted segments that
contained retransmitted data.
Other: Number of transmitted segments that contained no
data.
Received: Received: Total number of TCP segments received by the access
server.
Segments Discarded: Number of received TCP segments that were discarded due to
errors. These errors can include bad checksum and invalid
length of TCP header.
Bytes Transmitted: Total number of bytes of data transmitted in TCP segments,
including bytes retransmitted. The following counters are a
breakdown of this total:
Bytes Data: Total number of bytes of data transmitted in TCP
segments, not including bytes retransmitted.
Bytes Data Retransmitted: Total number of retransmitted bytes
of data transmitted in TCP segments.
Bytes Received: Total number of bytes of data received in TCP segments.
IP Packets Transmitted: Total number of IP datagrams transmitted.
IP Packets Received: Total number of IP datagrams received.
IP Fragments Received: Total number of IP fragments received.
IP Fragments Dropped: Total number of IP fragments dropped due to either a lack of
memory to store the fragment or received a duplicate fragment.
IP Error in Header: Total number of IP datagrams received with errors in the
header. These are discarded.
Internet Connections The following counters contain statistics on connections:
Requested: Number of outgoing Telnet connect attempts made by users.