Avaya Cajun P882 User Manual page 595

Avaya P550R, P580, P880, and P882 Multiservice Switch User Guide, v5.3.1
Monitoring and Configuring the Forwarding Cache
2. Refer to Table 18-2 for an explanation for the Frame
Forwarding Statistics dialog box parameters
Table 18-2. Frame Forwarding Statistics Dialog Box Parameters
Parameter Defines the...
FIRE Fabric Fabric port associated with the layer 3 module. The
Port/Chip P550/P580 switch has 13 fabric ports: the P880/P882
Index switch has 33 fabric ports. The supervisor module slot
uses one fabric port: the media module slots each use
two fabric ports. The supervisor module slot uses fabric
port 1, the first media module slot uses fabric ports 2 and
3, and so on.
L3 Total (T2) Total number of frames received on the fabric port.
L3 Frame Number of packets received on the fabric port that were
Cache Hits successfully matched against existing forwarding entries
in the layer 3 (L3) address cache.
Percent Cache Total percentage of successful matches between packets
Hits received on a fabric port and the percent of those
packets that matched the L3 address cache entries.
L3 Slow Path Number of frames received on a fabric port that were not
Frames successfully matched against existing forwarding entries
in the layer 3 (L3) address cache. Subsequently, these
frames were forwarded to the supervisor module (slow
path). All frames sent to the supervisor module are
routed in software.
Percent Slow Total percentage of unsuccessful matches between
Path packets received on a fabric port and the percent of
those packets that did not match the layer 3 address
cache entries.
L3 Drop Number of layer 3 frames that were dropped. For
Frames example: They did not match the layer 3 address cache
entries.
Percent Drops Total percent of layer 3 frames dropped.
RX Frame Total number of frames received on a fabric port.
Count (T2)
L2 Frame Number of layer 2 frames received on a fabric port that
Count (T2) were forwarded on to an associated VLAN.
Refer to the Command Reference Guide for the Avaya P550R, P580, P880,
and P882 Multiservice Switches, v5.3.1 for details about these
commands.
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