Interface Statistics Window
Use this window to view color-coded statistical information about each individual bridge port on your device. The first four statistics are graphically displayed in color-coded form in the pie chart. These statistics are updated with each poll to the device.
This window can also be accessed from the Interface Summary window by selecting the desired interface, and clicking on Statistics.
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- Description
- Displays a description of the port and the type of interface followed by the board and port number.
- Unicast
- Displays the number of packets received/transmitted by the interface that had a single, unique source or destination address.
- Non-Unicast
- Displays the number of packets received/transmitted by the interface that had a source or destination address recognized by more than one device on the network segment. This field includes a count of broadcast packets -- those recognized by all devices on a segment.
- Discarded
- Displays the number of packets received/transmitted by the interface that were discarded, even though no errors were detected. If good packets are discarded, a busy network must need to free up buffer space. This usually means that network traffic is overwhelming the device.
- Unknown Protocol
- Displays the number of received packets that were discarded because of an unknown or unsupported protocol.
- Transmit Queue Size
- Displays the length of the output packet queue, in packets. The availability of device buffer space and the level of traffic on the target network determine how large the output packet queue can grow before the device begins to discard packets.
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