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Address chain overflows, Address table overflows, Frame errors – Cabletron Systems STS16-20R User Manual

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Address Chain Overflows

Number of address table chain overflows. An overflow will result in an address
being deleted from the address table, which means a decrease in performance.

Address Table Overflows

Number of address tables overflows. An overflow will result in an address being
deleted from the address table, which means a decrease in performance.

Frame Errors

Total number of frames received or transmitted by/from this port with an error.

Receive Buffer Overflows

Total number of frames received on this port which caused a buffer overflow.

Transmit Buffer Overflows

Total number of frames which could not be transmitted from this port because of
transmit buffer overflow.

Long Frames

Total number of frames received on this port which exceeded the maximum frame
length.

Short Frames

Total number of frames received on this port which were less that 18 bytes.

Duplicate Ring Number

Indicates the number of times a frame which contains a duplicate ring number in
the RIF field has been seen by the port.

Invalid RIF RC Field

Indicates the number of times a frame which contains an illegal routing control field
has been seen by the port. That is, a routing control with an odd length or a length
of zero.

RIF Length Exceeded

Indicates the number of times a frame which contains a RIF field which is too long
has been seen by the port.

Explorer Overflow

Indicates the number of times that an explorer frame has been dropped because of
explorer rate throttling.