Vif management

Displaying the status of a vif

Displaying vif status

You can display the current status of a specified vif or all single-mode and multi-mode vifs on a filer.

To display the status of a vif, complete the following step.

Step	Action
1	Enter the following command: *vif status [vif_name]* vif_name is the name of the vif whose status you want to display. If you don't specify the vif name, the status of all vifs is displayed.

Example of displaying vif status

The following example displays the status of vif1 on a filer called toaster:

toaster> vif status vif1

default: transmit 'IP Load balancing', VIF Type 'multi_mode', fail 
'log'

vif1: 1 link, transmit 'none', VIF Type 'single_mode' fail 
'default'

VIF Status     Up      Addr_set

up:

        e10: state up, since 05Oct2001 17:17:15 (05:23:05)

                mediatype: auto-1000t-fd-up

                flags: enabled

                input packets 20, input bytes 1280

                output packets 2, output bytes 84

                up indications 1, broken indications 0

                drops (if) 0, drops (link) 0

                indication: up at boot

                        consecutive 3, transitions 1

        down:

        e5: state down, since 05Oct2001 17:17:03 (05:22:00)

                mediatype: auto-unknown-cfg_down

                flags: disabled

                input packets 0, input bytes 0

                output packets 0, output bytes 0

                up indications 0, broken indications 0

                drops (if) 0, drops (link) 0

                indication: down at boot

                        consecutive 4, transitions 0

The following table describes the console output.

Field Name	Sub-field Name	Description	Value
`default`		Indicates the default values for fields such as transmit, VIF Type, and fail. These values apply if no values are specified for these fields when a vif is created.
	`transmit`	Indicates the default load-balancing method.	IP Load balancing
	`VIF Type`	Indicates the default vif type.	multi_mode
	`fail`	Indicates the default location where the errors will be logged.	log (that is, system log)
`vif1`		Indicates that the data following this field pertains to the vif vif1.
	`transmit`	Indicates the load- balancing method used.	none (load- balancing methods are used for multi-mode vifs only)
	`VIF type`	Indicates the type of vif1.	single_mode
	`fail`	Indicates the location where errors will be logged for vif1.	default (system log)
	`VIF Status`	Indicates the current status of vif1.	Up
	`Addr_set`	Indicates that a MAC address has been configured for vif1 and all of its interfaces.
	`up`	Indicates that the interface following this sub-field is up. In this example, because vif1 is a single-mode vif, e10 is up while e5 is down.
	`state`	Indicates the current link-state of the interface.	up
	`since`	Indicates the date, time, and number of hours since the interface has been up.	05Oct2001 17:17:15 (05:23:05)
	`flags`	Indicates that the interface is enabled to send and receive data (enabled).	enabled
	`consecutive`	Indicates the number of consecutively received Up or Broken indications from the switch and link interaction.	3
	`transitions`	Indicates the number of indications received that caused a state transition from Up to Broken or Down to Up.	1
	`down`	Indicates that the interface following this sub-field is down. In this example, e5 is the standby interface for the single-mode vif, vif1.

For more information about the vif status command, see the na_vif(1) man page.