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Chapter 5: Local Management
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Drop Events (Read-only)
This field displays the total number of times that the RMON agent was
forced to discard packets due to the lack of available switch resources.
Collisions (Read-only)
This field displays the total number of collisions that have occurred on
this interface.
Broadcast Pkts (Read-only)
The Broadcast Pkts field displays the total number of good frames that
were directed to the broadcast address. The value of this field does not
include multicast frames.
Multicasts (Read-only)
The Multicast Pkts field displays the total number of good frames
received that were directed to a multicast address. The value of this field
does not include frames directed to the broadcast address.
CRC Align Errors (Read-only)
This field displays the number of frames with bad Cyclic Redundancy
Checks (CRC) received from the network. The CRC is a 4-byte field in
the data frame that ensures that the data received is the same as the data
that was originally sent.
Undersized Pkts (Read-only)
The Undersized Packets field displays the number of frames received
whose size was less than the minimum Ethernet frame size of 64 bytes,
not including preamble, but having a valid CRC.
Oversized Pkts (Read-only)
The Oversized Packets field displays the number of frames received
whose size exceeded 1518 data bytes, not including preamble, but having
a valid CRC.
NOTE
The Drop Events field does not display the number of packets
dropped, it only displays the number of times that the RMON
agent was forced to discard packets. Drop events are a normal
occurrence during switch initialization.