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Chapter 22      DLPs A500 to A599
DLP-A533 Create Ethernet RMON Alarm Thresholds
etherStatsCollisionFrames An estimate of the total number of collisions on this Ethernet 
segment. The value returned will depend on the location of the 
RMON probe. Section 8.2.1.3 (10Base5) and Section 10.3.1.3 
(10Base2) of the IEEE 802.3 standard state that a station must 
detect a collision, in the receive mode, if three or more stations 
are transmitting simultaneously. A repeater port must detect a 
collision when two or more stations are transmitting 
simultaneously. Thus, a probe placed on a repeater port could 
record more collisions than a probe connected to a station on the 
same segment.
Probe location plays a much smaller role when considering 
10BaseT. Section 14.2.1.4 (10BaseT) of the IEEE 802.3 standard 
defines a collision as the simultaneous presence of signals on the 
DO and RD circuits (transmitting and receiving at the same 
time). A 10BaseT station can only detect collisions when it is 
transmitting. Thus, probes placed on a station and a repeater, 
should report the same number of collisions.
An RMON probe inside a repeater should report collisions 
between the repeater and one or more other hosts (transmit 
collisions as defined by IEEE 802.3k) plus receiver collisions 
observed on any coaxial segments to which the repeater is 
connected.
etherStatsDropEvents The total number of events in which packets were dropped by the 
probe due to lack of resources. This number is not necessarily the 
number of packets dropped; it is just the number of times this 
condition has been detected.
etherStatsJabbers Total number of octets of data (including bad packets) received 
on the network
etherStatsMulticastPkts Total number of good packets received that were directed to a 
multicast address, not including packets directed to the broadcast
etherStatsOversizePkts Total number of packets received that were longer than 
1518 octets (excluding framing bits, but including FCS octets) 
and were otherwise well formed
etherStatsUndersizePkts Number of packets received with a length less than 64 octets
etherStatsFragments Total number of packets that are not an integral number of octets 
or have a bad FCS, and that are less than 64 octets long
etherStatsPkts64Octets Total number of packets received (including error packets) that 
were 64 octets in length
etherStatsPkts65to127Octets Total number of packets received (including error packets) that 
were 65 to 172 octets in length
etherStatsPkts128to255Octets Total number of packets received (including error packets) that 
were 128 to 255 octets in length
etherStatsPkts256to511Octets Total number of packets received (including error packets) that 
were 256 to 511 octets in length
Table 22-5 Ethernet Threshold Variables (MIBs) (continued)
Variable Definition