NS3000/iX Operations and Maintenance Reference Manual (36922-90042)

202 AppendixA
LINKCONTROL Command
NS 3000/iX 100VG-AnyLAN Link Statistics
values in these fields reach their maximum possible value. When this
occurs, these fields can only be reset manually.
Transmit bytes norm — Total number of bytes successfully
transmitted onto the medium at normal priority. This includes unicast,
broadcast, and multicast frames. It also includes frames for which
normal priority was requested, but which were later automatically
boosted to demand priority by the 100VG-AnyLAN network. The
maximum printable value of this 64-bit field is 17 digits, or about 99
million Gbytes. In the example above, 1.45 billion bytes were
transmitted, or about 1.38 Gbytes.
Transmit bytes hipri — Total number of bytes successfully
transmitted onto the medium at high (demand) priority. This includes
unicast, broadcast, and multicast frames. It does not include frames for
which normal priority was originally requested, but which were later
automatically priority-boosted by the 100VG-AnyLAN network. The
maximum printable value of this 64-bit field is 17 digits, or about 99
million Gbytes. In the example above, 62,029 high priority bytes have
been transmitted, or about 60K bytes.
Transmits norm — Total number of frames successfully transmitted
onto the medium at normal priority. This includes unicast, broadcast,
and multicast frames. It also includes frames for which normal priority
was requested, but which were later automatically boosted to demand
priority by the 100VG-AnyLAN network. The byte count given by
Transmit bytes norm is distributed over this number of frames. The
maximum printable value of this 64-bit field is 17 digits, or about 99
million billion frames. In the previous example, 2.71million frames
were transmitted at normal priority.
Transmits hipri — Total number of frames successfully transmitted
onto the medium at high (demand) priority. This includes unicast,
broadcast, and multicast frames. It does not include frames for which
normal priority was originally requested, but which were later
automatically priority-boosted by the 100VG network. The byte count
given by Transmit bytes hipri is distributed over this number of frames.
The maximum printable value of this 64-bit field is 17 digits, or about
99 million billion frames. In the example above, 712 frames were
transmitted at high priority.
Transmits no error — Total number of frames the adapter card
reports it successfully transmitted onto the medium. These adapter
card statistics are periodically read, and are accumulated by the link
driver. The total includes all unicast, broadcast, and multicast frames,
at both normal and high (demand) priority. It should equal the sum of
(Transmits norm + Transmits hipri). The maximum printable value of
this 64-bit field is 17 digits, or about 99 million billion frames. In the
previous example, 2.71 million frames were transmitted regardless of
priority level.