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22-6 User Guide for the Avaya P580 and P882 Multiservice Switches, v6.1
Chapter 22
Displaying and Searching the L3 Forwarding Cache for an
Entry
Web Agent
Procedure
You can display and search the Layer 3 Forwarding Cache for an entry
using the Web Agent, To display the contents of the L3 forwarding Cache,
you can use the search function to display:
— only the selected options,
— or all options by not selecting any options and clicking on the
search button.
* Note: Layer 3 Active Forwarding Cache entry Search is available with
the Web Agent only, no CLI version.
L3 Slow Path
Frames
Number of frames received on a fabric port that were not
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.
If this number is very large and the module associated with
the fabric port is licensed, you may want to enable a short-
lived protocol filter to conserve the forwarding engine
resources. For information on how to enable a short-lived
protocol filter, see “Configuring Short-Lived IP Protocol
Filters” in Chapter 12, “Configuring IP Routing.”
Percent Slow Path Total percentage of unsuccessful matches between packets
received on a fabric port and the percent of those packets
that did not match the layer 3 address cache entries.
L3 Drop Frames Number of layer 3 frames that were dropped. For example:
They did not match the layer 3 address cache entries.
Percent Drops Total percent of layer 3 frames dropped.
RX Frame Count
(T2)
Total number of frames received on a fabric port.
L2 Frame Count
(T2)
Number of layer 2 frames received on a fabric port that
were forwarded on to an associated VLAN.
Table 22-2. Frame Forwarding Statistics Web Page Parameters
Parameter Defines the...
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