Reference Guide

Line Description
– giants = packets that are greater than the MTU size
– throttles = packets containing PAUSE frames
• Number of CRC, IP Checksum, overrun, and discarded
packets:
– CRC = packets with CRC/FCS errors
– IP Checksum = packets with IP Checksum errors
– overrun = number of packets discarded due to FIFO
overrun conditions
– discarded = the sum of runts, giants, CRC, IP
Checksum, and overrun packets discarded without
any processing
Output Statistics: Displays output statistics sent out of the interface including:
• Number of packets, bytes, and underruns out of the
interface
– packets = total number of packets
– bytes = total number of bytes
– underruns = number of packets with FIFO underrun
conditions
• Number of Multicast, Broadcast, and Unicast packets:
– Multicasts = number of MAC multicast packets
– Broadcasts = number of MAC broadcast packets
– Unicasts = number of MAC unicast packets
• Number of throttles and discards packets::
– throttles = packets containing PAUSE frames
– discarded = number of packets discarded without
any processing
Rate information... Estimate of the input and output traffic rate over a
designated interval (30 to 299 seconds). Traffic rate is
displayed in bits, packets per second, and percent of line
rate.
Time since... Elapsed time since the last interface status change
(hh:mm:ss format).
Usage
Information
The interface counter “over 1023-byte pkts” does not increment for packets in the
range 9216 > x <1023.
The Management port is enabled by default (no shutdown). If necessary, use the
ip address command to assign an IP address to the Management port.
Example 10G
Port
Dell#show interfaces tengigabitethernet 2/0
TenGigabitEthernet 2/0 is up, line protocol is up
Hardware is Dell Force10Eth, address is 00:01:e8:05:f7:3a
Interface index is 100990998
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Interfaces