Ethernet Support Guide for HP-UX 11i v3

*** lan0 subsystem-specific statistics:
In Packet Error = 0
Out Packet Error = 0
Link Down Events = 0
Loopback Packets = 0
NOTE: This example was the result of running the nwmgr command for a Gigabit Ethernet card.
If the command is used on a Fast Ethernet card, the “PPA Number” entry in this listing would be
“Network Management ID”. (If the command is used on a 10Gigabit ethernet, the “PPA Number”
entry would be displayed as shown in this example.)
B.1.1 RFC 1213 MIB II
The following list provides descriptions of the statistics fields in the nwmgr command display. For
more detailed information about the fields, see RFC 1213.
Field Description
Network Management ID A unique ID assigned by the system for the network
management of each network interface.
PPA Number A unique number assigned to each network interface.
Description A textual string containing information about the interface.
Type (value) The type of interface, distinguished according to the
physical/link protocols, immediately below the network
layer in the protocol stack.
Gigabit Ethernet can have either an ethernet or IEEE 802.3
value.
10/100Base-TX can have either an ethernet-csmacd(6) or
iso88023-csmacd(7) value.
MTU Size The size of the largest datagram which can be sent or
received on the interface specified in octets. This value can
be 1500 or 9000.
Speed in bits per second The speed of the card — 1000 Mbit/s for 1000Base-SX.
10, 100, or 1000 Mbit/s for 1000Base-T. 10 Mbit/s or
100 Mbit/s for Fast Ethernet.
Station Address The interface address at the protocol layer immediately
below the network layer in the protocol stack. For interfaces
that do not have such an address, such as serial line, this
object contains an octet string of zero length.
Administration Status (ifAdmin) Administration Status sets the status of the card. It may be
set to one of these three values:
Table 17 Administration status (ifAdmin): Valid values
Allow card to pass packetsup(1)
card is inoperativedown(2)
card is in test modetesting(3)
NOTE: All drivers except gelan and btlan support the
ifAdmin parameter. However, with certain older versions
of HP-UX (prior to B.11.31.1109), the nwmgr command
might not be able to modify the parameter unless the patch
PHNE_41971 is installed. Either install the patch or update
your HP-UX operating system.
64 Card statistics