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Table 48  Ethernet statistics for port 
Statistics Description 
dot3StatsInternalMacReceiveErrors  A count of frames for which reception on a particular interface 
fails due to an internal MAC sublayer receive error.  
A frame is only counted by an instance of this object if it is not 
counted by the corresponding instance of the 
dot3StatsFrameTooLongs object, the dot3StatsAlignmentErrors 
object, or the dot3StatsFCSErrors object. 
The precise meaning of the count represented by an instance of 
this object is implementation specific. In particular, an instance of 
this object may represent a count of received errors on a particular 
interface that are not otherwise counted. 
 
Interface statistics 
Command: /stats/port <port number>/if 
Interface statistics for port 1: 
                     ifHCIn Counters       ifHCOut Counters 
Octets:                  51697080313            51721056808 
UcastPkts:                  65356399               65385714 
BroadcastPkts:                     0                   6516 
MulticastPkts:                     0                      0 
Discards:                          0                      0 
Errors:                            0                  21187 
 
The following table describes the interface (IF) statistics for a selected port:  
Table 49  Interface statistics for port 
Statistics Description 
Octets—IfHCIn  The total number of octets received on the interface, including framing characters. 
UcastPkts—IfHCIn  The number of packets, delivered by this sublayer to a higher sublayer, which were not 
addressed to a multicast or broadcast address at this sublayer. 
BroadcastPkts—IfHCIn  The number of packets, delivered by this sublayer to a higher sublayer, which were 
addressed to a broadcast address at this sublayer. 
MulticastPkts—IfHCIn  The total number of packets, delivered by this sublayer. These are the packets that 
higher-level protocols requested to be transmitted, and which were addressed to a 
multicast address at this sublayer, including those that were discarded or not sent.  
For a MAC layer protocol, this includes both group and functional addresses. 
Discards—IfHCIn  The number of inbound packets which were chosen to be discarded even though no 
errors were detected to prevent their being delivered to a higher-layer protocol. One 
possible reason for discarding such a packet could be to free up buffer space. 
Errors—IfHCIn  For packet-oriented interfaces, the number of inbound packets that contained errors 
preventing them from being delivered to a higher-layer protocol.  
For character-oriented or fixed-length interfaces, the number of inbound transmission 
units that contained errors preventing them from being deliverable to a higher-layer 
protocol. 
Octets—IfHCOut  The total number of octets transmitted out of the interface, including framing characters. 
UcastPkts—IfHCOut  The total number of packets that higher-level protocols requested to be transmitted, and 
which were not addressed to a multicast or broadcast address at this sublayer, 
including those that were discarded or not sent. 
BroadcastPkts—IfHCOut  The total number of packets that higher-level protocols requested to be transmitted, and 
which were addressed to a broadcast address at this sublayer, including those that 
were discarded or not sent. This object is a 64-bit version of ifOutBroadcastPkts.