NETGEAR 7300 Series Switch User Manual


 
User Manual for the NETGEAR 7300 Series Layer 3 Managed Switch Software
Switching Commands 8-11
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The display parameters when the argument is ‘switchport’ is as follows:
Octets Received - The total number of octets of data received by
the processor (excluding framing bits but including FCS octets).
Total Packets Received Without Error- The total number of
packets (including broadcast packets and multicast packets)
received by the processor.
Unicast Packets Received - The number of subnetwork-unicast
packets delivered to a higher-layer protocol.
Multicast Packets Received - The total number of packets
received that were directed to a multicast address. Note that this
number does not include packets directed to the broadcast
address.
Broadcast Packets Received - The total number of packets
received that were directed to the broadcast address. Note that
this does not include multicast packets.
Receive Packets Discarded - The number of inbound packets
which were chosen to be discarded even though no errors had
been detected to prevent their being deliverable to a higher-layer
protocol. A possible reason for discarding a packet could be to
free up buffer space.
Octets Transmitted - The total number of octets transmitted out
of the interface, including framing characters.
Packets Transmitted without Errors - The total number of
packets transmitted out of the interface.
Unicast Packets Transmitted - The total number of packets that
higher-level protocols requested be transmitted to a subnetwork-
unicast address, including those that were discarded or not sent.
Multicast Packets Transmitted - The total number of packets
that higher-level protocols requested be transmitted to a Multicast
address, including those that were discarded or not sent.
Broadcast Packets Transmitted - The total number of packets
that higher-level protocols requested be transmitted to the Broad-
cast address, including those that were discarded or not sent.
Transmit Packets Discarded - The number of outbound packets
which were chosen to be discarded even though no errors had
been detected to prevent their being deliverable to a higher-layer