3-142 Sun Fire B1600 Blade System Chassis Switch Administration Guide • June 2003
Note – RMON groups 2, 3 and 9 can only be accessed using SNMP.
TABLE 3-43 Traffic Statistics
Statistic Description
Interface Statistics
• Received Octets The totalnumber of octets received on the interface, including
framing characters.
• Received Unicast Packets The number of subnetwork-unicast packets delivered to a
higher-layer protocol.
• Received Multicast Packets The number of packets, delivered by this sub-layer toa higher
(sub-)layer, which were addressed to a multicast address at
this sub-layer.
• Received Broadcast Packets The number of packets, delivered by this sub-layer toa higher
(sub-)layer, which were addressed to a broadcast address at
this sub-layer.
• Received Discarded Packets 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. One
possible reason for discarding such a packet could be to free
up buffer space.
• Received Unknown Packets The number of packets received through the interface which
were discarded because of an unknown or unsupported
protocol.
• Received Errors The number of inbound packets that contained errors
preventing them from being deliverable to a higher-layer
protocol.
• Transmit Octets The total number of octets transmitted out of the interface,
including framing characters.
• Transmit Unicast Packets 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.
• Transmit Multicast Packets The total number of packets that higher-level protocols
requested be transmitted, and which were addressed to a
multicast address at this sub-layer, including those that were
discarded or not sent.
• Transmit Broadcast Packets The total number of packets that higher-level protocols
requested be transmitted, and which were addressed to a
broadcast address at this sub-layer, including those that were
discarded or not sent.