ETHERNET TRAFFIC STATISTICS AND ANALYSIS METHOD AND SYSTEM

• US 20120263072A1
• Filed: 04/09/2010
• Published: 10/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Wu, Shaoyong
• Application Number:
  US13/518,924
• Publication Number:
  US 20120263072A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/253
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/142 using statistical or mathematical methods
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/26 using dedicated tools for LAN [Local Area Network] management

Abstract

An Ethernet traffic statistics and analysis method comprises: according to two pieces of port traffic information reported continuously by each of two traffic analyzed nodes which are connected to any one link and a reporting time interval, a traffic analyzing node counting traffic of packets passing through the link, traffic of lost packets and corresponding rates, and constructing an analytic diagram according to the rate of the traffic of the lost packets counted every time. An Ethernet traffic statistics and analysis system is also provided. The solution performs statistics and analysis on the traffic on the link in the Ethernet, and reflects the current state of the link accurately and visually. When a fault occurs or a packet is lost on the link, the fault position can be quickly located, and the efficiency of management and maintenance can be increased.

Claims

1. An Ethernet traffic statistics and analysis method, comprising:

according to two pieces of port traffic information reported continuously by each of two traffic analyzed nodes which are connected to any one link and a reporting time interval, a traffic analyzing node counting traffic of packets passing through the link, traffic of lost packets and corresponding rates, and constructing an analytic diagram according to the rate of the traffic of the lost packets counted every time;

wherein the port traffic information comprises counting information of sent and received packets of a port of the traffic analyzed node.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of constructing an analytic diagram according to the rate of the traffic of the lost packets counted every time comprises:

according to the rate of the traffic of the lost packets counted every time, constructing the analytic diagram by taking a reporting time of the traffic analyzed node as a time axis.

3. The method according to claim 1 or claim 2, further comprising:

according to a configured sending strategy, the traffic analyzing node sending a traffic collection request message to the two traffic analyzed nodes on each link respectively; and

after receiving the traffic collection request message, the traffic analyzed nodes sending a traffic reporting message respectively to report respective port traffic information.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the two traffic analyzed nodes which are connected to any one link are a first node and a second node;

the counted traffic of the packets passing through the link comprises;

total traffic of packets sent from the first node to the second node, traffic of packets successfully sent from the first node to the second node, total traffic of packets sent from the second node to the first node, and traffic of packets successfully sent from the second node to the first node.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the traffic of the lost packets comprises:

traffic of lost packets from the first node to the second node, and traffic of lost packets from the second node to the first node.

8. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

according to a configured sending strategy, the traffic analyzing node sending a traffic collection request message to the two traffic analyzed nodes on each link respectively; and

after receiving the traffic collection request message, the traffic analyzed nodes sending a traffic reporting message respectively to report respective port traffic information.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the two traffic analyzed nodes which are connected to any one link are a first node and a second node;

the counted traffic of the packets passing through the link comprises;

total traffic of packets sent from the first node to the second node, traffic of packets successfully sent from the first node to the second node, total traffic of packets sent from the second node to the first node, and traffic of packets successfully sent from the second node to the first node.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the traffic of the lost packets comprises:

traffic of lost packets from the first node to the second node, and traffic of lost packets from the second node to the first node.

6. An Ethernet traffic statistics and analysis system, comprising:

an analyzing node and two analyzed nodes which are connected to at least one link, wherein

the analyzing node is configured to, according to two pieces of port traffic information reported continuously by each of the two analyzed nodes which are connected to any one link and a reporting time interval, count traffic of packets passing through the link, traffic of lost packets and corresponding rates, and construct an analytic diagram according to the rate of the traffic of the lost packets counted every time; and

the analyzed nodes are configured to report respective port traffic information to the analyzing node.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the analyzing node is further configured to, according to a configured sending strategy, send a traffic collection request message to the two analyzed nodes on each link respectively;

the analyzed nodes are further configured to, after receiving the traffic collection request message, send a traffic reporting message respectively to report respective port traffic information.