Chapter 1
Network Administration
Remote Annex Administrator's Guide for UNIX
Book B-4
Table B-2. Hardware Interface Statistics for Ethernet
Statistic
Description
Frames Received
The number of packets received from the network
interface.
Frames Transmitted The number of packets transmitted on the network
interface.
Bytes Received
The number of bytes received from the network
interface.
Bytes Transmitted
The number of bytes transmitted on the network
interface.
CRC Errors
The number of frames received from the network
interface with a bad CRC.
Alignment Errors
The number of frames received from the network
interface that were both misaligned and have a CRC
error.
Bad Type/
The number of frames received from the network
Length Fields
interface that have an unrecognized type field
(ethernet) or an illegal length field (802.3).
Buffer Drops
The number of frames received from the network
interface that were good, but dropped because no
buffers were available.
FIFO Drops
The number of frames received from the network
interface that were lost since the local system bus was
not available.
Interface Resets
The number of times the network interface has been
initialized from reset; typically, one.
TX DMA
The number of times a frame transmission is
Underruns
terminated due to lack of data.
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