Broadcasts rates on Radio and ethernet interface

[john.wright]

What is the difference between the broadcast rates that one sees on the radio interface verses the ehternet interface?

This is a sh inter that I did after a clear counters 7 min before.

S#sh inter | include l2|line|broadcast

BVI1 is up, line protocol is up

     Received 0 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles

Dot11Radio0 is up, line protocol is up

     Received 67 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles

Dot11Radio0.1 is up, line protocol is up

Dot11Radio0.103 is up, line protocol is up

GigabitEthernet0 is up, line protocol is up

     Received 23105 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles

GigabitEthernet0.1 is up, line protocol is up

GigabitEthernet0.103 is up, line protocol is up

[John Harrison · Accepted solution]

Hi John,

The received broadcasts shown in your CLI output is not a rate, but rather a total count of broadcast packets received on that interface. The difference in the count on your gig0 interface verses Rad0 simply means you have more traffic on gig0.

I hope this helps.

Thanks,

-John