Help Explaining Interface Counters

[Mark_Tiesman]

I have a couple of ports on different PA's showing various interface errors. Just looking for some help deciphering and find a solution for the interface. PA-7000 series running PAN-OS 9.1.13. Output for the "show counter interface" command is below for each interface. Thanks!!

Interface: ethernet2/7
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Physical port counters read from MAC:
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rx-broadcast 586257555
rx-bytes 394308470791468
rx-multicast 842691179
rx-unicast 378855053284
tx-broadcast 0
tx-bytes 452731991299825
tx-multicast 673058
tx-unicast 430509484685
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Detailed physical port counters read from MAC:
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rx packets 64 bytes 536466081
rx packets 65 to 127 bytes 190407718980
rx packets 128 to 255 bytes 38432458346
rx packets 256 to 511 bytes 23450597825
rx packets 512 to 1023 bytes 21779510353
rx packets 1024+ bytes 536204123609
flow control transmitted 10954
receive fifo overrun 29127
packets with bad crc 1
bad_octets_rcv 1522
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Hardware interface counters read from CPU:
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bytes received 1099064615523
bytes transmitted 9283714
packets received 1075037682
packets transmitted 143012
receive incoming errors 29127
receive discarded 1
receive errors 367
packets dropped 0
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Interface: ethernet2/13
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Physical port counters read from MAC:
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rx-broadcast 2431566503
rx-bytes 846125348608174
rx-multicast 20953026801
rx-unicast 898109804425
tx-broadcast 281395
tx-bytes 992069056429585
tx-multicast 7059031
tx-unicast 879627278148
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Detailed physical port counters read from MAC:
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rx packets 64 bytes 38169626142
rx packets 65 to 127 bytes 382280575769
rx packets 128 to 255 bytes 116937698307
rx packets 256 to 511 bytes 46904769175
rx packets 512 to 1023 bytes 57440651721
rx packets 1024+ bytes 1159400829426
flow control transmitted 702816
receive fifo overrun 811619
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Hardware interface counters read from CPU:
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bytes received 409023005399499
bytes transmitted 9402187704
packets received 14927653250
packets transmitted 146728369
receive incoming errors 811619
receive discarded 0
receive errors 600279450
packets dropped 0
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[JayGolf]

Hi @Mark_Tiesman ,

Thanks for your post. Here is a helpful KB on Hardware Interface Counters