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