However, if I do a 'vif status', I get a very high number for "consecutive":
toaster> vif status default: transmit 'multi', fail 'log' redundo: 2 links, transmit 'single', fail 'default' up: e8: state up, since 18Jul2001 12:37:34 (01:00:17) mediatype: auto-1000sx-fd-up flags: enabled next-link favored address-set-1 input packets 11626, input bytes 729869 output packets 528, output bytes 83621 up indications 1, broken indications 1 drops (if) 0, drops (link) 0 indication: up at 18Jul2001 12:36:41 consecutive 0, transitions 2 down: e0: state down, since 18Jul2001 12:37:34 (01:00:17) mediatype: auto-100tx-fd-up flags: disabled input packets 286, input bytes 25148 output packets 136, output bytes 17952 up indications 3669, broken indications 0 drops (if) 0, drops (link) 0 indication: up at 18Jul2001 13:37:51 consecutive 3669, transitions 0
The "up indications" seems to be the cause of it. Can anyone tell me what that is from? It looks like there is about 1 every second or so. Is this a normal thing? I searched on NOW and could only find one hit for "consecutive" that both had to do with virtual interfaces and wasn't in the documentation.
The vif man page (na_vif.1) explains
Links constantly issue either up or broken indications based on their interaction with the switch. The consecu tive count indicates the number of consecutively received indications with the same value (in this example, up). The transitions count indicates how many times the indica tion has gone from up to down or from down to up.
So, you don't need to worry about this.
Sam