Hello,
I am troubleshooting some network issues within our ESXi environment and found some conflicting information. If I run "esxcli network port stats get -p 33554440" the output shows 1.8 million dropped rx packets. If I run "esxcli network nic stats get -n vmnic0" it shows 0 dropped rx packets. Which counters should I believe? Do I really have 1.8 million dropped packets on my vmnic0 interface?
net-stats -l
PortNum Type SubType SwitchName MACAddress ClientName
33554434 4 0 DvsPortset-0 e4:43:4b:3f:0e:c1 vmnic1
33554436 4 0 DvsPortset-0 e4:43:4b:3f:0e:c2 vmnic2
33554438 4 0 DvsPortset-0 e4:43:4b:3f:0e:c3 vmnic3
33554440 4 0 DvsPortset-0 e4:43:4b:3f:0e:c0 vmnic0
esxcli network port stats get -p 33554440
Packet statistics for port 33554440
Packets received: 87544626
Packets sent: 8429346
Bytes received: 129602747701
Bytes sent: 9463664346
Broadcast packets received: 6493871
Broadcast packets sent: 156345
Multicast packets received: 3881601
Multicast packets sent: 124981
Unicast packets received: 77169154
Unicast packets sent: 8148020
Receive packets dropped: 1805740
Transmit packets dropped: 0
esxcli network nic stats get -n vmnic0
NIC statistics for vmnic0
Packets received: 394969676
Packets sent: 60301120
Bytes received: 133138954305
Bytes sent: 27992022000
Receive packets dropped: 0
Transmit packets dropped: 0
Multicast packets received: 13091748
Broadcast packets received: 24361915
Multicast packets sent: 412667
Broadcast packets sent: 221598
Total receive errors: 0
Receive length errors: 0
Receive over errors: 0
Receive CRC errors: 0
Receive frame errors: 0
Receive FIFO errors: 0
Receive missed errors: 0
Total transmit errors: 0
Transmit aborted errors: 0
Transmit carrier errors: 0
Transmit FIFO errors: 0
Transmit heartbeat errors: 0
Transmit window errors: 0