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