Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 1025)

Emulex Drivers Version 10.2 for VMware ESXi User Manual P010087-01A Rev. A
3. Configuration
NIC Driver Configuration
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# ethtool -S eth
where eth is the name of the Ethernet device you are working on (for example,
eth0).
Table 3-4 contains a list of ethtool -S option port statistics counters and their
descriptions.
To view the port statistics counters on ESXi 5.5, run the following command:
# esxcli network nic stats get -n vmnic0
The output should look similar to the following:
Refer to Table 4-11, ESXi 5.5 Native Mode NIC Driver Support for ethtool Commands,
on page 1144 for the equivalent command to get driver priv stats.
NIC statistics for vmnic0
Packets received: 2795
Packets sent: 0
Bytes received: 346765
Bytes sent: 0
Receive packets dropped: 0
Transmit packets dropped: 0
Total receive errors: 0
Receive length errors: 0
Receive over errors: 0
Receive CRC errors: 0
Receive frame errors: 0
Receive FIFO errors: 0
Receive missed errors: 0
Total transmit errors: 0
Transmit aborted errors: 0
Transmit carrier errors: 0
Transmit FIFO errors: 0
Transmit heartbeat errors: 0
Transmit window errors: 0
Table 3-4 Port Statistics Counters
Ethtool Statistics Counter Name Description
rx_packets The number of packets received.
rx_ucast The number of unicast packets received.
rx_bcast The number of broadcast packets received.
rx_mcast The number of multicast packets received.
rx_bytes The total number of bytes received.
rx_errors The total number of error packets received.
rx_length_errors The number of packets received with length errors. A length
error occurs if an incoming packet is undersized (less than 65
bytes) or oversized (greater than 1522/9216 bytes).
rx_over_errors Receiver ring buffer overflow errors.