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Avaya P550R, P580, P880, and P882 Multiservice Switch User Guide, v5.3.1 18-5
Monitoring and Configuring the Forwarding Cache
Figure 6-169. Frame Forwarding Statistics Dialog Box
2. Refer to Table 6-117 for an explanation for the Frame
Forwarding Statistics dialog box parameters
Table 6-117. Frame Forwarding Statistics Dialog Box Parameters
Parameter Defines the...
FIRE Fabric
Port/Chip
Index
Fabric port associated with the layer 3 module. The
P550/P580 switch has 13 fabric ports: the P880/P882
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
Cache Hits
Number of packets received on the fabric port that were
successfully matched against existing forwarding entries
in the layer 3 (L3) address cache.
Percent Cache
Hits
Total percentage of successful matches between packets
received on a fabric port and the percent of those
packets that matched the L3 address cache entries.
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.
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.