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Chapter 18
Cajun P550/P880/P882 Switch User Guide
2. Refer to Table18-2 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 Port Fabric port associated with the layer 3 module. The
switch has 13 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 layer 3 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.
L3 Drop Frames Number of layer 3 frames that were dropped because
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.