Network Performance Monitoring-The show interface Command-The show traffic Command

Network Achievement Monitoring

Congested arrangement interfaces can abase all-embracing performance.You charge to

ensure that the interfaces on your PIX firewall can handle the demands placed on

them. Cisco offers several commands to analysis the cachet of your interfaces.

The appearance interface Command

One such command is appearance interface.You can analysis how abundant bandwidth is

being captivated and analysis a countless of absurdity counters.We accept discussed show

interface ahead in the chapter, and will not change what has already been

covered.

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The appearance cartage Command

You can attenuated your focus to abduction the specific cardinal of packets and bytes

that are transiting anniversary interface on the PIX firewall.The appearance interface command

provides agnate information, but you accept to accomplish it a specific point to zoom in

on that advice to actuate absolutely the bulk of cartage actuality anesthetized on a

per-interface basis.

The appearance cartage command provides statistics on the cardinal of packets and

bytes anesthetized through anniversary interface. As you can see in the achievement in Figure 10.27,

show cartage tells you how continued the interface has been in operation (either the firewall

below has been in operation about three hours or that abundant time has

elapsed back the allowance of the statistics).The command achievement displays the

amount of cartage transmitted and accustomed in that bulk of time.

Figure 10.27 Achievement of the appearance cartage Command

PIX1# appearance traffic

outside:

received (in 10035.150 secs):

2 packets 678 bytes

0 pkts/sec 0 bytes/sec

transmitted (in 10035.150 secs):

14 packets 1026 bytes

0 pkts/sec 0 bytes/sec

inside:

received (in 10035.150 secs):

0 packets 0 bytes

0 pkts/sec 0 bytes/sec

transmitted (in 10035.150 secs):

15 packets 900 bytes

0 pkts/sec 0 bytes/sec

You can displace the cartage counters application the bright cartage command, which resets

the counters to 0.Network Performance Monitoring