Following are descriptions of the card statistics that are
output from the lanadmin(1M) command.
Driver Statistics
- In Packet
Error
Number
of inbound packets discarded because they were received when the
driver was not operational or the packet length was incorrect.
- Out Packet Error
Number
of outbound packets discarded because the driver was not operational
or the driver had insufficient resources (Memory) to transmit the packet.
- Loopback packets
Number of packets looped
back to the upper layers by the driver.
- Link Down events
Number of link down events, i.e., cable disconnects processed
by the driver.
Host Command Statistics
- nicCmdsDelMCastAddr
Number of times the driver has issued a command
to the NIC to delete a multicast MAC address.
- nicCmdsSetPromiscMode
Number of times the NIC received a command to enable
or disable promiscuous mode.
- nicCmdsSetMACAddr
Number of times the NIC received a command to set the
current MAC address.
- nicCmdsClearStats
Number of times the NIC received a command to clear
the card statistics maintained by the card.
NIC Events Statistics
- nicEventsFirmwareOperational
The number of events the driver has received from the
NIC indicating that the firmware on the NIC is in the operational
state.
- nicEventsStatsUpdated
The number of times the NIC has updated the MIB interface
statistics.
- nicEventsLinkStateChanged
The number of events the driver has processed indicating
that the status of the link has changed.
- nicEventsMCastListUpdated
The number of times the NIC generated an event to report
the addition or deletion of a multicast MAC address.
Interface Statistics
These are the MIB statistics collected by the card as documented
in RFC1066.
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