System information

CONFIGURATION
1.2. Network status
To view the system information about the router operation, select the Network menu
item. The upper part of the window displays detailed information about active interfaces:
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eth0 Networks interface
ppp0 Interface (active connection to GPRS/EDGE)
tun0 OpenVPN tunnel interface
ipsec0 IPSec tunnel interface
gre1 GRE tunnel interface
Table 1: Description of interface in network status
By each of the interfaces is then shown the following information:
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HWaddr Hardware (unique) address of networks interface
inet IP address of interface
P-t-P IP address second ends connection
Bcast Broadcast address
Mask Mask of network
MTU Maximum size of packet, which is equipment able transmit
Metric Number of routers, over which packet must go trought
RX
• packets – received packets
• errors - number of errors
• dropped - dropped packets
• overruns – incoming packets lost because of overload
• frame – wrong incoming packets because of incorrect packet size
TX
• packets – transmit packets
• errors - number of errors
• dropped - dropped packets
• overruns – outgoing packets lost because of overload
• carrier - wrong outgoing packets with errors resulting from the physical layer
collisions Number of collisions on physical layer
txqueuelen Length of front network device
RX bytes Total number of received bytes
TX bytes Total number of transmitted bytes
Table 2: Description of information in network status
It is possible to read status PPP connection from the network information. If the PPP
connection is active, then it is in the system information shown as ppp0 interface.
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