Network Interfaces Information Physical And Team
Use this window to view detailed information about the physical Network Interface Controller (NIC) and team interface.
User Privileges
Selection | View | Manage |
Network Interfaces Information (for a Specific Interface) | User, Power User, Administrator, Elevated Administrator (Linux only) | Not Applicable |
NOTE: For more
details on user privilege levels, see Privilege Levels In The Server Administrator GUI.
The individual Network Interface and Team Interface window displays the following information.
NOTE: For a network interface on Converged Network Adapter (CNA), the
reported TOE Capable, FCoE Capable, and iSOE Capable values provide
capability information for the CNA and not for the network interface. For
more information read vendor documentation.
NOTE: The network interface
information listed below covers all possible fields. This list may
include fields that are not displayed when running certain operating
system or network card capability.
NOTE: Due to the limitations
of the VMware ESXi operating system, some physical statistics and
team statistics described in this help page are not available with
this release of Server Administrator.
NOTE: The team interface
statistics are not available on a Windows 2003 server. If the network
interface cards are teamed, depending on the OS installed, the Server
Administrator may or may not display all the statistics described
in this help page.
NOTE: On Windows 2008 Hypervisor
operating system, Server Administrator does not report the IP addresses
of the physical NIC ports that are used to assign an IP to a virtual
machine.
Physical Information
Description | Displays the name of the network controller. |
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Vendor | Displays the name of the vendor. |
Slot Name | Name of the slot where the controller is located. |
Current MAC Address | Displays the Media Access Control (MAC) address. On a Local Area Network (LAN) or other network, the MAC address is your system's unique hardware number. |
Duplex | Displays the duplex mode of communication system.
A duplex communication system is a system composed of two connected
parties or devices which can communicate with one another in both
directions. A half-duplex system provides for
communication in both directions, but only one direction at a time
(not simultaneously). A full-duplex, or sometimes double-duplex system allows communication in both directions,
and unlike half-duplex, allows this to happen simultaneously. NOTE: Server Administrator
is unable to get the duplex mode for Intel NICs on Microsoft Windows
operating systems and reports the value as Unknown. |
Base I/O Address | Displays the initial address for a unique area of memory allocated for input/output data control to a specific hardware adapter. The value is displayed in hexadecimals. |
Base Memory Address | Displays the initial address for a unique area of memory allocated for input/output data control to a specific hardware adapter. The value is displayed in hexadecimal |
IRQ | Displays the Interrupt Request Line (IRQ) number used by the network interface. |
DMA | Displays the Direct Memory Access Channel, if applicable. |
Link Status | Displays the link status (Up/Down/Unknown) of the network controller. |
Connection Status | Displays the connection status of the network controller. |
TOE Capable | Indicates whether TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) support is available or Unknown, where the value Unknown is unable to retrieve TOE capabilities from the Server. |
TOE Enabled | Indicates whether TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) support is enabled or Unknown, where the value Unknown is unable to retrieve TOE enabled capabilities from the Server. |
FCoE Capable | Indicates whether Fibre Channel over Ethernet is available or Unknown , where the value Unknown is unable to retrieve FCoE capabilities from the Server. NOTE: This information is
not available on VMware ESX and VMware ESXi systems. |
iSOE Capable | Indicates whether iSCSI Offload Engine support is
available or Unknown, where the value Unknown is unable to retrieve iSOE capabilities from the Server.
NOTE: This
information is not available on VMware ESX and VMware ESXi systems. |
NparEP Enabled | Indicates whether network endpoints are enabled or
disabled. NOTE: This
information is not available VMware ESXi systems. |
Driver Name | Displays the network interface driver name. |
Driver Image Path | Displays the path where drivers for the network interfaces are stored. |
Driver Version | Displays the version number of the driver for the network interface. |
Firmware Version | Displays the version of the firmware on your system. NOTE: For Broadcom NICs,
the firmware family version is reported if it is accessible by Server
Administrator. If the firmware family version is accessible on Windows
operating systems, Server Administrator will report the firmware family
version and the firmware component versions that are available for
the NIC. If the firmware family version is not accessible on Windows
operating systems, Server Administrator will report the firmware component
versions that are available for the NIC. If the firmware family version
is accessible on Linux operating systems, Server Administrator will
report the firmware family version and the firmware version value
that is provided by the NIC driver. If the firmware family version
is not accessible on Linux operating systems, Server Administrator will
report the firmware version value that is provided by the NIC driver.
The firmware version value that is provided by the NIC driver on Linux
operating systems is typically the boot code version followed by one
of the other firmware component versions. |
Team Information
Description | Displays the name of the team interface. |
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Vendor | Displays the name of the vendor. |
Slot Name | Displays the slot name for the virtual/teamed interfaces as Virtual. |
Current MAC Address | Displays the Media Access Control (MAC) address for the team interface. |
Link Status | Displays the link status (Up/Down) of the team interface. |
Connection Status | Displays the connection status of the team interface. |
Driver Name | Displays the team interface driver name. |
Driver Image Path | Displays the path where drivers for the team interfaces are stored. |
Driver Version | Displays the version number of the driver for the team interface. |
Team Name | Displays the name of the team interface. |
Team Type | Displays the type of team. The different types of
teaming are:
|
Interface Members | Displays the name of the network interface cards that are teamed. |
Interface
Description | Displays the name of the network interface. |
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Type | Displays the type of network interface (for example — Ethernet). |
Operational Status | Displays the operational status of the network interface. |
Administrative Status | Displays the administrative status of the network interface. |
Maximum Transmission Unit | Displays the Maximum Transmission Unit. This refers to the size (in bytes) of the largest packet or frame. |
Speed | Displays the speed of the network interface. |
DHCP Server | Displays the IP address of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server. |
Default Gateway | Displays the default gateway address. The default gateway provides the address of the router for your network. |
IPv4 Addresses
IP Address | Displays the IPv4 address. |
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Subnet Mask | Displays the subnet mask. This is a thirty-two bit
address mask used in IP to indicate the bits of an IP address that
are being used for the subnet address. NOTE: The subnet mask is
not displayed if you enter an IPv6 address. |
IPv6 Addresses
NOTE: Server Administrator will
display only two addresses, in addition to the link local address.
Name | Defines the name of the address. This could be link local, IPv6 address 1, or IPv6 address 2. |
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IP Address | Displays the IPv6 address. |
Prefix Length | Displays the prefix length of the IPv6 address. This is the number of bits in an IP address that specify its network number. |
Physical/Team Interface Receive Statistics
Good Frames | Displays the total number of readable frames received by the port. |
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Bad Frames | Displays the total number of unreadable frames received by the port. |
Alignment Errors | Displays the count of frames received on a particular interface that are not an integral number of octets and do not pass the FCS check. |
FCS Errors | Displays a count of frames received on a particular interface but do not pass the FCS check. |
Frames too long | Displays a count of frames that exceed the max permitted frame size. |
Internal MAC Receive error | Displays the number of frames for which reception failed due to an internal MAC receive error. |
Physical/Team Interface Transmit Statistics
Good Frames | Displays the total number of readable frames transmitted by the port. |
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Bad Frames | Displays the total number of unreadable frames transmitted by the port. |
Single Collision Frames | Displays the frames that are involved in single collisions but are subsequently transmitted successfully. |
Multiple Collision Frames | Displays the count of frames transmitted across an interface where more than one collision exists. |
Deferred Transmits | Displays the number of first transmissions attempts delayed because the medium was busy. |
Collisions | Displays the number of frames for which one or more collisions occurred when the frames were sent. |
Late Collisions | Displays the number of frames for which late collision has occurred when the frames were sent. |
Excessive Collisions | Displays the number of times a transmission failed due to excessive collision. |
Carrier Sense Errors | Displays the number of times a carrier sense has been lost during transmission. |
Internal MAC Transmit Errors | Displays the number of frames for which reception failed due to an internal MAC transmit error. |
Interface Receive Statistics
Bytes | Displays the total number of octets received on the interface, including framing characters. |
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Total Packets | Displays the total packets received. |
Unicast Packets | Displays the number of inbound packets that were not addressed to a multicast or broadcast address. |
Multicast Packets | Displays the number of multicast packets received. |
Broadcast Packets | Displays the number of broadcast packets received |
Discarded Packets | Displays the number of inbound packets discarded. |
Error Packets | Displays the number of inbound packets that contained errors. |
Unknown Protocol Packets | Displays the number of packets which were discarded due to unknown or unsupported protocol. |
Interface Transmit Statistics
Bytes | Displays the number of octets transmitted out of the interface. |
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Total Packets | Displays the total number of packets transmitted. |
Unicast Packets | Displays number of outbound packets which were not addressed to a multicast of broadcast address. |
Discarded Packets | Displays the total number of outbound packets discarded. |
Error Packets | Displays the number of outbound packets which were not transmitted because of errors. |
Queue Length | Displays the length of the output queue. |
For an explanation of other buttons present on Server Administrator
Action pages, see Server Administrator Window Buttons.