Command Reference Guide
3Com Router 5000 Family and Router 6000 Family display ip statistics ● 153
Command Reference
display ip statistics
Purpose Use the display ip statistics command to view IP traffic statistics
information. This command is used to display such statistics information as IP packet
transmit/receive, packet assembly/disassembly, which is helpful to fault diagnosis.
Syntax display ip statistics
Parameters None
Example Display the IP traffic statistic information.
<3Com> display ip statistics
Input: sum 7120 local 112
bad protocol 0 bad format 0
bad checksum 0 bad options 0
Output: forwarding 0 local 27
dropped 0 no route 2
compress fails 0
Fragment:input 0 output 0
dropped 0
fragmented 0 couldn’t fragment 0
Reassembling:sum 0 timeouts 0
When fast forwarding is functioning, the sum of input packets and the number of
forwarded packets only count in unicast packets. The likelihood exists that some
other types of packets are counted in, for example, broadcast packets sent/received
Table 14 Description of the fields of the display ip statistics command
Field Description
Input: sum Sum of input packets
local Number of received packets whose destination is the local device
bad protocol Number of packets with wrong protocol number
bad format Number of packets in bad format
bad checksum Number of packets with wrong checksum
bad options Number of packets that has wrong options
Output: forwarding Number of forwarded packets
local Number of packets that are sent by the local device
dropped Number of dropped packets during transmission
no route Number of packets that cannot be routed
compress fails Number of packets that cannot be compressed
Fragment: input Number of input fragments
output Number of output fragments
dropped Number of dropped fragments
fragmented Number of packets that are fragmented
couldn’t fragment Number of packets that cannot be fragmented
Reassembling: sum Number of packets that are reassembled
timeouts Number of packets that time out