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ethernet summary

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Fields in the Ethernet Summary Display

Field

Description

actualFlowControl

Actual flow control setting. When autonegotiation is
completed, the value is the autonegotiated setting. When
autonegotiation is disabled, the value is the user-selected
flow control value.

actualPortMode

Actual operating port mode. When autonegotiation is
completed, the values shown are the autonegotiated
settings. When autonegotiation is disabled, the value is
the user-selected port mode.

autoNegMode

Autonegotiation mode configured for port. Possible
values are

enable

or

disable

.

autoNegState

Current negotiation state. Possible values are

disabled

,

configuring

,

completed

, and

failed

.

linkStatus

Boolean value that indicates the current state of the
physical link for this port (either

enabled

or

disabled

).

macAddress

MAC address of this port.

noRxBuffers

Number of frames that were discarded because no buffer
space was available.

portLabel

User-defined label name. The maximum length of the
string is 32 characters, including the null terminator.

portState

Current software operational state of this port. Possible
values are

on-line

,

off-line

,

partitioned

,

tx-fault

, and

config-error

. The value

on-line

appears when the port is both enabled and connected to
a cable. The value

partitioned

appears when the port

has been disabled by the ethernet port monitoring
feature.

portType

Specific description of this port’s type. Values for each
port type:

10/100BASE-T(RJ45)

,

100BASE-FX

(SC)

,

1000BASE-SX (SC)

,

1000BASE-LX (GBIC)

,

1000BASE-SX (GBIC)

,

Backplane

(9000).

reqFlowControl

Configurable parameter that sets the flow control option
(when autonegotiation is disabled). When
autonegotiation is enabled, flow control values are
ignored.

reqPortMode

Configurable parameter that sets the port mode on
Ethernet ports that have port mode options (when
autonegotiation is disabled). When autonegotiation is
enabled, port mode values are ignored.

rxBytes

Number of bytes received by this port, including framing
characters.

rxErrs

Total of all receive errors that are associated with this
port.