Question

A network technician is reviewing interface statistics on a switch port connected to a workstation that reports intermittent connectivity. The output shows a rising count of 'giants' on the interface. What condition is most directly indicated by this counter increasing?

Accepted Answer

Frames received that exceed the maximum allowed frame size for the interface

Answer

Frames received that are smaller than the minimum 64-byte Ethernet frame size

Answer

Frames that failed the cyclic redundancy check due to signal corruption

Answer

Frames dropped because the interface buffer was congested during peak traffic