User`s guide

CONFIGURATION
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By each of the interfaces are then shown the following information:
• HWaddr – hardware (unique) address of networks interface
• inet – own IP address
• P-t-P – IP address second ends connection
• Bcast – broadcast address
• Mask – mask of network
• MTU – maximal size of packet, which is equipment able transmit
• Metric – number of routers, over which packet must pass
• RX packets – received packets, errors – number of errors, dropped – dropped
packets
• TX packets – transmit packets, errors – number of errors, dropped – dropped packets
• collisions – number of collisions
• RX bytes – total number of received bytes
• TX bytes – total number of transmit bytes
It is possible to elicit PPP connection state from the network information. If the PPP
connection is active, then it is in the system information shown as ppp0 connection.