User`s guide

8-port Gigabit Ethernet Switch User’s Guide
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• Time Out – Specifies length of time a Telnet session can be idle. When this time has expired, the Switch will
disconnect the user. The default value is 10 minutes.
• Sessions – The number of Telnet sessions ranges from 1 to 4.
Network Monitoring
The Networking Monitoring menu has been divided into three main sections: Statistics, Address Table, and Applications.
Statistics
The Web Manager allows various statistics about the Switch’s performance to be viewed.
Port Utilization
The following port utilization statistics are compiled by the Switch’s management agent:
Figure 7-62. Port Utilization screen
The statistic counters displayed are defined as follows:
• Update Interval – The interval (in seconds) that the table is updated. The default is Suspend.
• TX frames/sec – The number of good bytes sent from the respective port per second.
• RX frames/sec – The number of good bytes received per second. This also includes local and dropped packets.
• % of Utilization – This shows the percentage of available bandwidth each port is using over the amount of
time specified by the update interval. For example, when a 10 Mbps port is relaying packets at 5 Mbps, the
utilization is 50%.
Port Error Packets
The following port error statistics are compiled by the Switch’s management agent: