From: Chris (clarson52@comcast.net)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 18:36:56 GMT-3
As long as hair splitting is going on, a SONET frame can contain many
frames, cells or packets. This is serious hair splitting and gets a little
cloudy though considering it is mostly a layer one protocol. Also using
SONET and RPR and other forms of photonic technologies and research there
are frames being trasnported within packets.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Balaji Siva" <bsivasub@cisco.com>
To: "John Neiberger" <neiby@ureach.com>; "Richard Davidson"
<rich@myhomemail.net>; "groupstudy" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 4:07 PM
Subject: RE: RE: CAT os traffic on port
> john..
>
> good point about frames and packets..guess depends on the definition...
>
>
> B
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
> John Neiberger
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 3:47 PM
> To: Balaji Siva; Richard Davidson; groupstudy
> Subject: Re: RE: CAT os traffic on port
>
>
> Good point about "show mac", I'd forgotten that it only gives
> the total frame counts, not a count per interval.
>
> A frame can't contain multiple packets, but a large packet
> could span many frames. I've always found it helpful to be
> specific when referring to frames and packets. But, perhaps
> I'm splitting hairs. :-)
>
> John
>
>
>
> ---- On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Balaji Siva (bsivasub@cisco.com) wrote:
>
> > show mac doesn't give packets/sec..it just gives the packet
> count rx/tx
> >
> > use show top to give utilization on the link..
> >
> > there is no equivalent command as far as i know
> >
> >
> > now does it really matter frames vs packets ?
> >
> > Can a frame contain multiple packets !!!!! so packets is
> good enough i
> > think..
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Balaji
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On
> Behalf Of
> > John Neiberger
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 3:13 PM
> > To: Richard Davidson; groupstudy
> > Subject: Re: CAT os traffic on port
> >
> >
> > Are you using CatOS or IOS? If it's the former, use "show
> > mac". If it's the latter, use "show interface" and look at
> the
> > packets/sec counter. I'm assuming that since these are layer-
> 2
> > interfaces then they really must mean frames/sec, not packets.
> >
> > Anyone know for sure?
> >
> > Regards,
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> > ---- On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Richard Davidson
> (rich@myhomemail.net)
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Does any one know of a command on the cat 6000 that will
> show
> > a ports frames per second. Kind of
> > > like sho interface in a router shows packets per second.
> > >
> > > Rich
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