Port-channel1 is up, line protocol is up

Indicates the bundle interface is currently active and can transmit and receive or it has been taken down by an administrator.

Hardware is

Hardware type (Gigabit EtherChannel).

address is

Address being used by the interface.

MTU

Maximum transmission unit of the interface.

BW

Bandwidth of the interface, in kilobits per second.

DLY

Delay of the interface, in microseconds.

reliability

Reliability of the interface as a fraction of 255 (255/255 is 100 percent reliability), calculated as an exponential average over 5 minutes.

tx load rxload

Transmit and receive load on the interface as a fraction of 255 (255/255 is completely saturated), calculated as an exponential average over 5 minutes. The calculation uses the value from the bandwidth interface configuration command.

Encapsulation

Encapsulation type assigned to the interface.

loopback

Indicates if loopbacks are set.

keepalive

Indicates if keepalives are set.

ARP type

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) type on the interface.

ARP Timeout

Number of hours, minutes, and seconds an ARP cache entry stays in the cache.

No. of active members in this channel

Number of bundled ports (members) currently active and part of the port channel group.

Member <no. > Gigabit Ethernet: <no. /no. /no. >

Number of the bundled port and associated Gigabit Ethernet port channel interface.

Last input

Number of hours, minutes, and seconds since the last packet was successfully received by an interface and processed locally on the Device. Useful for knowing when a dead interface failed. This counter is updated only when packets are process-switched, not when packets are fast-switched.

output

Number of hours, minutes, and seconds since the last packet was successfully transmitted by an interface. This counter is updated only when packets are process-switched, not when packets are fast-switched.

output hang

Number of hours, minutes, and seconds since the interface was last reset because of a transmission that took too long. When the number of hours in any of the “last” fields exceeds 24 hours, the number of days and hours is printed. If that field overflows, asterisks are printed.

last clearing

Time at which the counters that measure cumulative statistics (such as number of bytes transmitted and received) shown in this report were last reset to zero. Variables that might affect routing (for example, load and reliability) are not cleared when the counters are cleared.

*** indicates that the elapsed time is too long to be displayed.

0:00:00 indicates that the counters were cleared more than 231 ms and less than 232 ms ago.

Input queue

Number of packets in the input queue and the maximum size of the queue.

Queueing strategy

First-in, first-out queueing strategy (other queueing strategies you might see are priority-list, custom-list, and weighted fair).

Output queue

Number of packets in the output queue and the maximum size of the queue.

5 minute input rate 5 minute output rate

Average number of bits and packets received or transmitted per second in the last 5 minutes.

packets input

Total number of error-free packets received by the system.

bytes (input)

Total number of bytes, including data and MAC encapsulation, in the error-free packets received by the system.

no buffer

Number of received packets discarded because there was no buffer space in the main system. Broadcast storms on Ethernet lines and bursts of noise on serial lines are often responsible for no input buffer events.

broadcasts

Total number of broadcast or multicast packets received by the interface.

runts

Number of packets that are discarded because they are smaller than the minimum packet size for the medium.

giants

Number of packets that are discarded because they exceed the maximum packet size for the medium.

input errors

Total number of no buffer, runts, giants, cyclic redundancy checks (CRCs), frame, overrun, ignored, and abort counts. Other input-related errors can also increment the count, so that this sum might not balance with the other counts.

CRC

CRC generated by the originating LAN station or far-end device does not match the checksum calculated from the data received. On a LAN, this usually indicates noise or transmission problems on the LAN interface or the LAN bus. A high number of CRCs is usually the result of collisions or a station transmitting bad data. On a serial link, CRCs usually indicate noise, gain hits or other transmission problems on the data link.

frame

Number of packets received incorrectly having a CRC error and a noninteger number of octets. On a serial line, this is usually the result of noise or other transmission problems.

overrun

Number of times the serial receiver hardware was unable to pass received data to a hardware buffer because the input rate exceeded the receiver’s capacity for handling the data.

ignored

Number of received packets ignored by the interface because the interface hardware ran low on internal buffers. These buffers are different than the system buffers mentioned previously in the buffer description. Broadcast storms and bursts of noise can cause the ignored count to be incremented.

watchdog

Number of times the watchdog receive timer expired.

multicast

Number of multicast packets received.

packets output

Total number of messages transmitted by the system.

bytes (output)

Total number of bytes, including data and MAC encapsulation, transmitted by the system.

underruns

Number of times that the far-end transmitter has been running faster than the near-end Device’s receiver can handle.

output errors

Sum of all errors that prevented the final transmission of datagrams out of the interface being examined. Note that this might not balance with the sum of the enumerated output errors, as some datagrams can have more than one error, and others can have errors that do not fall into any of the specifically tabulated categories.

collisions

Number of messages retransmitted because of an Ethernet collision. A packet that collides is counted only once in output packets.

interface resets

Number of times an interface has been completely reset. This can happen if packets queued for transmission were not sent within a certain interval. If the system notices that the carrier detect line of an interface is up but the line protocol is down, the system periodically resets the interface in an effort to restart that interface. Interface resets can also occur when an unrecoverable interface processor error occurred, or when an interface is looped back or shut down.

babbles

The transmit jabber timer expired.

late collision

Number of late collisions. Late collision happens when a collision occurs after transmitting the preamble. The most common cause of late collisions is that your Ethernet cable segments are too long for the speed at which you are transmitting.

deferred

Indicates that the chip had to defer while ready to transmit a frame because the carrier was asserted.

lost carrier

Number of times the carrier was lost during transmission.

no carrier

Number of times the carrier was not present during the transmission.

PAUSE output

Not supported.

output buffer failures

Number of times that a packet was not output from the output hold queue because of a shortage of shared memory.

output buffers swapped out

Number of packets stored in main memory when the output queue is full; swapping buffers to main memory prevents packets from being dropped when output is congested. The number is high when traffic is bursty.