RMON
The Remote Network MONitoring or RMON is an IETF standard to support monitoring and protocol analysis of LANs. An RMON implementation typically operates in a client/server model.
Monitoring devices, such as an ANIC SmartNIC, contain RMON software agents that collect information and analyze packets. These devices act as servers and the Network Management applications that communicate with them act as clients. In the case of ANIC adapters they provide all RMON1 (RFC 2819) related per-port statistics such as packets received, packets in error, dropped packets and broadcast/multicast packet count. The ANIC implementation also goes beyond the RFC to provide a packet count for various packet sizes ranging from the minimum 64 bytes up to and including jumbo frames (greater than 1518 bytes).
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