Packet stats sent vs received

[kev2five]

Hi all, 

I have a port that reports its 'no connected clinets on this port for selected time range'. I know the reason why.

When I do a packet capture i only see broadcast/mcast traffic. 

The stats for packets is zero for received and populated for sent. Should this not be the other way around?

Packets 

for the last 1 day

  Total Sent Received Rate

Total	232,475	232,475	0	2 pkts/s (2 pkts/s ↑, 0 pkt/s ↓)
Broadcast	110,441	110,441	0	1 pkts/s (1 pkts/s ↑, 0 pkt/s ↓)
Multicast	122,034	122,034	0	1 pkts/s (1 pkts/s ↑, 0 pkt/s ↓)
CRC align errors	0	0	0	-
Fragments	0	0	0	-
Collisions	0	0	0	-
Topology changes	0	0	0	-

[Brash · Accepted solution]

Unless I'm reading this wrong, it sounds logical to me.

The switchport is up and so is forwarding broadcast and multicast as expected.

However the switch has not received any packets from the other side of the link - hence it doesn't know of any clients being connected (no source mac's have been learned on that port).

[kev2five]

The switch 'sent' data to the end device, the switch 'did not receive' any data back. Cool.