Dell Broadcom NetXtreme Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 203)

Using Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 4: Broadcom NetXtreme II® Network Adapter User Guide
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A count of the frames that were involved in more than one collision and were subsequently transmitted successfully. This counter is
incremented when the transmit status is reported as Transmit OK, and the value of the attempts variable is greater than 2 and less
than or equal to the attempt limit.
Frames Tx after Deferral
A count of the frames that were delayed being transmitted on the first attempt because the medium was busy. The frames involved
in any collision are not counted.
Custom Statistics
NOTE: Custom statistics are available only for an enabled Broadcom network adapter.
Out of Recv. Buffer
The number of times the adapter ran out of Receive Buffer Descriptors. This information is only available for Broadcom NetXtreme II
adapters.
Frames size less than 64-byte with bad FCS
The number of frames with a size less than 64 bytes with bad FCS.
MAC Rx w/ Pause Command and Length = 0
MAC control frames with the pause command and a length equal to 0.
MAC Rx w/ Pause Command and Length greater than 0
MAC control frames with the pause command and a length greater than 0.
MAC Rx w/ no Pause Command
MAC control frames with no pause command.
MAC Sent X-on
MAC Transmit with X-on was on.
MAC Sent X-off
MAC Transmit with X-on was off.
Large Send Offload Transmit Requests
The number of times the adapter was requested to transmit a packet performing TCP segmentation.
Total Offload TCP Connections
The total number of offloaded TCP connections.
SR-IOV Switch Statistics
This area shows the statistics for SR-IOV switches.
Num of Active VFs
This shows the number of active Virtual Functions (VF).
Viewing and Configuring Resource Reservations
NOTES:
Resource Reservation information is only available for Broadcom NetXtreme II adapters and VBD drivers.
Not all offload technologies are available with all adapters.
Resource Reservation information is not available in BACS on Linux systems.
The Resource Reservations section shows the number of connections allocated to an offload technology: TOE and iSCSI.