User`s manual

Port Statistics

Command Line

To see the traffic statistics for any switch port, type

>show port statistics <port_number>

Enter the number of the port whose statistics you want to see in the port_number field. You can only

display statistics for one port at a time. The values accumulated since the Switch was last turned on or

reset appear in these status fields.

Receive Octets: Total number of octets received on this port.

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Receive Packets: The number of unicast packets received on this port.❍

Receive Multicast/Broadcast Packets: The number of multicast packets received on this port.❍

Receive Discards: The number of packets that were discarded once they were received on the

selected port because of a filtering decision.

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Receive Errors: The total number of errors received on this port. This is the sum of all individual

error counters for the port, such as CRC, overflow, jabbers and fragments.

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Receive Runts: The number of interrupted packets received on the port. Runts are frames with

incorrect sizes or formats that are typically the result of collisions.

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Receive Unknown Protocols: The number of packets, received at the port, of protocol types that

this port has not been set to forward.

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Transmit Octets: The total number of octets forwarded through this port.❍

Transmit Multicast/Broadcast Packets: The number of multicast packets forwarded over this

port.

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Transmit Discards: The number of packets received through the switching backplane that were

not transmitted out of the selected port because of a filtering decision.

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Transmit Errors: The total number of errors that have occurred on this port. This is the sum of

individual error counters for the port.

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