Dell Mellanox Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 51)

User Manual for Mellanox ConnectX®-3 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters for Dell PowerEdge Servers Rev 1.1
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• Physical Function can also read Virtual Functions' port counters through sysfs located
under:
• # /sys/class/net/eth*/vf*_statistics/
To display the network device Ethernet statistics, you can run:
Ethtool -S
Table 8 - Port IN Counters
Counter Description
rx_packets Total packets successfully received.
rx_bytes Total bytes in successfully received packets.
rx_multicast_packets Total multicast packets successfully received.
rx_broadcast_packets Total broadcast packets successfully received.
rx_errors Number of receive packets that contained errors preventing them
from being deliverable to a higher-layer protocol.
rx_dropped Number of receive packets which were chosen to be discarded
even though no errors had been detected to prevent their being
deliverable to a higher-layer protocol.
rx_length_errors Number of received frames that were dropped due to an error in
frame length
rx_over_errors Number of received frames that were dropped due to overflow
rx_crc_errors Number of received frames with a bad CRC that are not runts,
jabbers, or alignment errors
rx_jabbers Number of received frames with a length greater than MTU octets
and a bad CRC
rx_in_range_length_error Number of received frames with a length/type field value in the
(decimal) range [1500:46] (42 is also counted for VLANtagged
frames)
rx_out_range_length_error Number of received frames with a length/type field value in the
(decimal) range [1535:1501]
rx_lt_64_bytes_packets Number of received 64-or-less-octet frames
rx_127_bytes_packets Number of received 65-to-127-octet frames
rx_255_bytes_packets Number of received 128-to-255-octet frames
rx_511_bytes_packets Number of received 256-to-511-octet frames
rx_1023_bytes_packets Number of received 512-to-1023-octet frames
rx_1518_bytes_packets Number of received 1024-to-1518-octet frames