B&B Electronics SPECTRE, Configuration Manual

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B&B Electronics, Inc. SPECTRE Configuration Manual
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1.2. Network status
To view the current system information for the router, select the Network menu item. The
upper part of the window displays detailed information about the active interfaces.
Interface Description
eth0 Primary Ethernet interface
ppp0 PPP Interface (active connection to GPRS/EDGE/CDMA)
tun0 OpenVPN tunnel interface
ipsec0 IPSec tunnel interface
gre1 GRE tunnel interface
Table 1: Interface connection status
The following detailed information will be shown for each active connection.
Item Description
HWaddr Hardware MAC (unique) address of primary network interface
inet IP address of primary network interface
P-t-P IP address second ends connection
Bcast Broadcast address
Mask Network Subnet Mask
MTU Maximum transmittable packet size
Metric Number of routers that the packet must pass through
RX

packets
– number of received packets

errors - number of errors

dropped - number of dropped packets

overruns
– incoming packets lost because of overload

frame
– number of frame errors
TX

packets
– number of transmitted packets

errors - number of packet errors

dropped - number of dropped packets

overruns
– number of outgoing packets lost because of overload

carrier - outgoing packet errors resulting from the physical layer
collisions Number of collisions on physical layer
txqueuelen Number of packets in the transmit queue
RX bytes Total number of received bytes
TX bytes Total number of transmitted bytes
Table 2: Description of information in network status
If the PPP connection is active, the system information will appear on the ppp0 interface.
For the SPECTRE RT industrial router, interface ppp0 indicates the PPPoE connection.