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

The individual Network Interface and Team Interface window displays the following information.

Physical Information

Description	Displays the name of the network controller.
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.
TOE Enabled	Indicates whether TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) support is enabled.
FCoE Capable	Indicates whether Fibre Channel over Ethernet is available. NOTE: This information is not available on VMware ESX and VMware ESXi systems.
iSoE Capable	Indicates whether iSCSI over Ethernet support is available. NOTE: This information is not available on VMware ESX and 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.
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: Unknown Smart Load FEC/GEC Generic Trunking 802.3ad Link Aggregation using Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) Smart Load Balancing™ and Failover (SLB) Smart Load Balancing™ (Auto Failback Disable) Adapter Fault Tolerance Adaptive Load Balancing Static Link Aggregation Dynamic Link Aggregation Switch Fault Tolerance Load balancing (Round-Robin) Fault-tolerance (Active-Backup) Load Balancing (XOR) Fault-tolerance (Broadcast) IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic Link Aggregation Transmit load balancing Failsafe 802.3ad Static 802.3ad Dynamic Switch Independent Load Balancing Failover Failback 802.3ad Static Teaming mode (Address Hash) on Primary interface Switch Independent mode (Address Hash) on Primary interface LACP mode (Address Hash) on Primary interface Static Teaming mode (HyperV Port) on Primary interface Switch Independent mode (HyperV Port) on Primary interface LACP mode (HyperV Port) on Primary interface Static Teaming mode (Address Hash) on Secondary interface Switch Independent mode (Address Hash) on Secondary interface LACP mode (Address Hash) on Secondary interface Static teaming mode (HyperV Port) on Secondary interface Switch Independent mode (HyperV Port) on Secondary interface LACP mode (HyperV Port) on Secondary interface Static Teaming mode(Dynamic) on Primary interface LACP mode (Dynamic) on Primary interface Switch Independent mode (Dynamic) on Primary interface Static Teaming mode(Dynamic) on Secondary interface LACP mode (Dynamic) on Secondary interface Switch Independent mode (Dynamic) on Secondary interface
Interface Members	Displays the name of the network interface cards that are teamed.

Interface

Description	Displays the name of the network interface.
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.
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

Name	Defines the name of the address. This could be link local, IPv6 address 1, or IPv6 address 2.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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