Re: (ASCEND) Full-Duplex on Max6000

[Matt Holdrege <matt@ascend.com>]

At 01:35 AM 3/18/99 +0100, Oliver J. Albrecht wrote:
>Hi,
>However the Ether Stat display on the Max appears to be a little 
>weird, at least looking at the TX counters. I don't think I need to 
>understand the scheme behind this :)
>
>90-300 WAN Stat
>Rx Pkt:   27602912
>Tx Pkt:   24915771
>
>compared to:
>
>90-400 Ether Stat
>Rx Pkt:   24298827
>Tx Pkt:      37205
>   Col:          0

Ethernet receives all packets on the wire whether they are destined for the
Max or not. So if you have a couple of PC's on the same segment as the Max
and they are sending files back and forth, all those packets will show up
in your ether stat Rx Pkt field.

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