Packet Sending Modes; Enabling Ipc Performance Statistics - HP 5500 EI Series Configuration Manual

Figure 54 Relationship between a node, link and channel

Packet sending modes

IPC uses one of the following modes to send packets for upper layer application modules:
Unicast—One node sends packets to another node.
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Multicast—One node sends packets to multiple nodes. This mode includes broadcast, a special
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multicast. To use multicast mode, an application module must create a multicast group that includes
a set of nodes. Multicasts destined for this group are sent to all the nodes in the group. An
application module can create multiple multicast groups. Creation and deletion of a multicast
group or group member depend on the application module.
Mixcast—Supports both unicast and multicast.
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IPC assigns one queue for each mode. An upper layer application module automatically selects one
mode as needed.

Enabling IPC performance statistics

The IPC performance statistics function provides the most recent 10-second, 1-minute, and 5-minute traffic
input and output statistics for IPC nodes. If this function is disabled, the display ipc performance
command displays the statistics collected before IPC performance statistics was disabled.
Perform the following task in user view:
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