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

Table 1. 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 that is 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 that are 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 that are described in this help page.
NOTE: On the 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 It displays the name of the network controller.
Vendor It displays the name of the vendor.
Slot Name The name of the slot where the controller is located.
Current MAC Address It 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 It displays the duplex mode of communication system. A duplex communication system is a system that is 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 It displays the initial address for a unique area of memory that is allocated for input or output data control to a specific hardware adapter. The value is displayed in hexadecimals.
Base Memory Address It displays the initial address for a unique area of memory that is allocated for input or output data control to a specific hardware adapter. The value is displayed in hexadecimal.
IRQ It displays the Interrupt Request Line (IRQ) number that is used by the network interface.
DMA It displays the Direct Memory Access Channel, if applicable.
Link Status It displays the link status (Up, Down, or Unknown) of the network controller.
Connection Status It displays the connection status of the network controller.
TOE Capable It 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 It 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 It 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 It 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 It indicates whether network endpoints are enabled or disabled.
NOTE: This information is not available on VMware ESXi systems.
Driver Name It displays the network interface driver name.
Driver Image Path It displays the path where drivers for the network interfaces are stored.
Driver Version It displays the version number of the driver for the network interface.
Firmware Version It 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 reports 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 reports the firmware component versions that are available for the NIC. If the firmware family version is accessible on Linux operating systems, Server Administrator reports 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 reports 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 It displays the name of the team interface.
Vendor It displays the name of the vendor.
Slot Name It displays the slot name for the virtual/teamed interfaces as Virtual.
Current MAC Address It displays the Media Access Control (MAC) address for the team interface.
Link Status It displays the link status (Up or Down) of the team interface.
Connection Status It displays the connection status of the team interface.
Driver Name It displays the team interface driver name.
Driver Image Path It displays the path where drivers for the team interfaces are stored.
Driver Version It displays the version number of the driver for the team interface.
Team Name It displays the name of the team interface.
Team Type It 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 It displays the name of the network interface cards that are teamed.

Interface

Description It displays the name of the network interface.
Type It displays the type of network interface (for example—Ethernet).
Operational Status It displays the operational status of the network interface.
Administrative Status It displays the administrative status of the network interface.
Maximum Transmission Unit It displays the Maximum Transmission Unit. It refers to the size (in bytes) of the largest packet or frame.
Speed It displays the speed of the network interface.
DHCP Server It displays the IP address of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server.
Default Gateway It displays the default gateway address. The default gateway provides the address of the router for your network.

IPv4 Addresses

IP Address It displays the IPv4 address.
Subnet Mask It displays the subnet mask. It is a thirty-two bit address mask that is 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 displays only two addresses, in addition to the link local address.
Name It defines the name of the address. It could be link local, IPv6 address 1, or IPv6 address 2.
IP Address It displays the IPv6 address.
Prefix Length It displays the prefix length of the IPv6 address. It is the number of bits in an IP address that specify its network number.

Physical/Team Interface Receive Statistics

Good Frames It displays the total number of readable frames that are received by the port.
Bad Frames It displays the total number of unreadable frames that are received by the port.
Alignment Errors It displays the count of frames that are received on a particular interface that are not an integral number of octets and do not pass the FCS check.
FCS Errors It displays a count of frames that are received on a particular interface but do not pass the FCS check.
Frames too long It displays a count of frames that exceed the max permitted frame size.
Internal MAC Receive error It displays the number of frames for which reception failed due to an internal MAC receive error.

Physical/Team Interface Transmit Statistics

Good Frames It displays the total number of readable frames that are transmitted by the port.
Bad Frames It displays the total number of unreadable frames that are transmitted by the port.
Single Collision Frames It displays the frames that are involved in single collisions but are subsequently transmitted successfully.
Multiple Collision Frames It displays the count of frames that are transmitted across an interface where more than one collision exists.
Deferred Transmits It displays the number of first transmissions attempts delayed because the medium was busy.
Collisions It displays the number of frames for which one or more collisions occurred when the frames were sent.
Late Collisions It displays the number of frames for which late collision has occurred when the frames were sent.
Excessive Collisions It displays the number of times a transmission failed due to excessive collision.
Carrier Sense Errors It displays the number of times a carrier sense has been lost during transmission.
Internal MAC Transmit Errors It displays the number of frames for which reception failed due to an internal MAC transmit error.

Interface Receive Statistics

Bytes It displays the total number of octets that are received on the interface, including framing characters.
Total Packets It displays the total packets received.
Unicast Packets It displays the number of inbound packets that were not addressed to a multicast or broadcast address.
Multicast Packets It displays the number of multicast packets received.
Broadcast Packets It displays the number of broadcast packets received.
Discarded Packets It displays the number of inbound packets discarded.
Error Packets It displays the number of inbound packets that contained errors.
Unknown Protocol Packets It displays the number of packets which were discarded due to unknown or unsupported protocol.

Interface Transmit Statistics

Bytes It displays the number of octets that are transmitted out of the interface.
Total Packets It displays the total number of packets transmitted.
Unicast Packets It displays a number of outbound packets which were not addressed to a multicast of broadcast address.
Discarded Packets It displays the total number of outbound packets discarded.
Error Packets It displays the number of outbound packets which were not transmitted because of errors.
Queue Length It displays the length of the output queue.
For more information on the other buttons present in the Server Administrator Action pages, see Server Administrator Window Buttons.