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Ethernet Module Part of the MTT and xDSL Family of Products

1. 10 Ethernet Module Press the MODULE key to access the ETHERNET main menu MODULE KEY ETHERNET MAIN MENU CONFIGURATION sec 2 1 CONFIGURATION STATISTICS PORT 10 100T sec 2 4 OPERATION MONITOR VIEW PRINT RESULTS sec 2 7 BERT THROUGHPUT CONFIGURATION PORT 10 100T or 100FX PERTO ONTIO RATION OPERATION P TO P 23 MEASUREMENTS sec 2 3 2 QUICK TEST sec 2 3 3 CONFIGURATION cal IP FEATURES oe IP CONNECTION STATUS sec 2 5 1 1 BERT THROUGHPUT PING TEST ADVANCED FEATURES TRACE ROUTE sec 2 5 sec 2 5 1 3 MEASUREMENTS SETUP ECHO RESPONSE sec 2 6 sec 2 5 1 4 VIEWPRIN T RESULTS THROUGHPUT TEST SETUP sec 2 sec 2 5 1 5 ADVANCED FEATURES RFC2544 IP FEATURES SELECT FRAME FORMAT sec 2 5 1 sec 2 5 5 1 ROUNDTRIP DELAY SELECT FRAME LENGTH sec 2 5 2 sec 2 5 5 2 CABLE TEST SELECT TEST SEQUENCE sec 2 5 3 sec 2 5 5 3 BANDWIDTH SWEEP RUN TEST sec 2 5 4 sec 2 5 5 4 RFC2544 VIEW PRINT RESULTS sec 2 5 5 see test set user manual Figure 5 Menu Tree SSMOD 28 11 2 1 Configuration gt P1 100BT F DPLX CONFIGURATION gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt P2 100BT F DPLX CONFIGURATION gt PORT Vay OPERATION P TO P START UP QUICK TEST AUTO NEGO ENABLE PAUSE ENABLE ASYM PAUSE ENABLE PORT ROA OPERATION MONITOR P1 AUTO NEGO ENABLE P2 AUTO NEGO ENABLE CHD CHD CHD CHD P TO P AUTO NEGO enabled Monitor AUTO NEGO enabled gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt gt P2 100BT F
2. P EOP Y J PAST E BR SAVE d Figure 16 VLAN Editing Screen TCI P C VID 16 bits 3 bits 1bit 12 bits TCI Tag Control Information set to 8100 hex P IEEE 802 1P Priority level set between 0 and 7 _C Canonical indicator set to 0 VID VLAN ID set between 0 to 4095 Figure 17 VLAN Tag The VLAN editing screen contains the following VLAN Options 1 to 64 default is O You may also enter this parameter in this screen e Use the SHIFT and numeric keys to enter a number SSMOD 28 31 VLAN 1 2 3 and so on For each VLAN enter the Priority P from 0 to 7 and the VLAN ID VID from 0 to 4095 by pressing SHIFT and using the numeric keys You also may use the COPY F1 key to copy the VLAN P VID numbers and PASTE F2 it into a different line Note You may control the test duration in MEASUREMENTS SETUP When done press SAVE F4 to validate the settings and return to the BERT CONFIGURATION Layer 2 screen The rest of the Layer 2 Configuration screen has been previously described in Layer 1 Configuration Screen When finished with the configuration press ENTER to start testing The STATUS screen shown in Figure 19 is displayed Alternatively press ESC after configuration for QUICK TEST see Section 2 3 3 32 Ethernet Module Layer 3 Configuration Screen This configuration screen is similar to the BERT CONFIGURA TION screen Layer 2 Referring to Figure 8 Layer 3 Configura tion scree
3. PINGS 10 PING LEN 64 PING SEC 1 PING HEE Sent 0 Round Trip ms Recv d 0 Grnt 0 Unreach 0 Avg Q Missing 0 Max Min 0 0 Figure 35 PING Test Screen Before running a PING test make sure that you have pressed CONNECT F4 in the IP CONNECTION STATUS screen and that IP UP is displayed The screen is the same for all the encapsulation types Press START F4 after configuration to commence testing Press STOP F4 to halt testing The following items appear in Figure 35 ST Indicates when START F4 was pressed ET Elapsed time since START F4 was pressed LOCAL IP Displays the LOCAL IP entered in the CONFIGURA TION screen if static IP TYPE has been selected It displays the dynamically assigned address if DHCP has been selected in the CONFIGURATION screen DESTINATION IP Enter the Destination IP address before pressing START F4 Refer to Section 2 5 1 1 if you need help entering the address If you want to use the gateway press GATEWAY F1 PINGS Select the number of PINGS to send The range is 1 to 999999 or continuous The default value is 10 Refer to Section 2 5 1 1 if you need help entering a number PING LEN Select the PING length to send The range is 64 to 1518 bytes the default is 64 Refer to Section 2 5 1 1 if you need help entering the length PING SEC Defines the number of PINGs to send per second from 1 to 10 the default is 1 Refer to Section 2 5 1 1 if you need help entering
4. LOOPBACK VERIFICATION PLEASE WAIT If the loop verification fails the test set indicates this by displaying NO LOOPBACK DETECTED TEST ABORTED If this occurs press ESC and verify your circuit After a positive loop verification the screen shown in Figure 40 is displayed SSMOD 28 63 12 03 43 gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt ROUNDTRIP DELAY ROUNDTRIP DELAY Min Max Avg LOST FR 0 TX FR 1 0 00716 0 00716 0 00716 0 00716 Figure 40 Roundtrip Delay Results Screen The following is reported ROUNDTRIP DELAY The top line indicates the current delay the next lines indicate the minimum maximum and average delay The average is for the current length of the test LOST FR This indicates the number of lost frames during the period of the test TX FR This indicates the number of transmitted frames during the test When done press ESC 64 Ethernet Module 2 5 3 Cable Test This basic test determines if the cable you are using is a straight crossover or open cable To perform this test select from the ETHERNET main menu ADVANCED FEATURES gt CABLE TEST The following screen is displayed 12 03 43 gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt CABLE TEST TEST MAPPING Connect the cable under test between Portl and Port2 and press ENTER Figure 41 Cable Test Screen At this point connect one cable end to the 10 100BaseT Port 1 and the other end to the 10 100BaseT Port 2 When
5. Cable Test Result Screens 66 Bandwidth Sweep Configuration Screens 67 Sample Bandwidth Sweep Screens 69 RFC2544 Frame Format Screen 71 RFC2544 Frame Length Selection Screen 72 RFC2544 Test Sequence Selection Screen 73 Throughput Test Configuration Screen 73 Latency Test Configuration Screen 74 Frame Loss Rate Configuration Screen 75 Burstability Test Configuration Screen 76 User Threshold Adjustment Screen 77 Throughput Measurement Screens 79 Latency Table Screen 80 Measurements Setup Screen 81 Stored Results Screen 83 Character Selection Screen 84 SSMOD 28 103 Figures continued 58 Layer 1 BER Testing Setup 86 59 Layer 2 BER Testing Setup 88 60 Layer 3 BER Testing Setup Indirect Routing 90 61 Loopback Mode 92 62 Pass Through Mode Connection 94 63 Ethernet Overview 95 64 Ethernet Frame Format 96 Frame Loss Rate Configuration Screen DURATION 76 START BANDWIDTH 75 STEP SIZE 75 l IP Connection Status Screens DNS SERVER 50 GATEWAY 50 IP TYPE DHCP 50 STATIC 50 LOCAL IP 50 SUBNET 50 VLAN 50 IP Throughput Test Configuration Screen BANDWIDTH 61 DESTINATION IP 61 FRAME LENGTH 61 SEQUENCE 61 TEST PATTERN 60 TRAFFIC TYPE 60 L Latency Table Screen 80 Latency Test Configuration Screen BANDWIDTH CUSTOM 74 THRUPUT 74 DURATION 74 Loopback Configuration Screens COMMAND LOOP DN 18 LOOP UP 18 FORMAT LAYER 1 18 LAYER 2 18 LAYER 3 18 IP DST 19 IP SRC 19 104 Etherne
6. LOOP UP FAILED When a loop down command is transmitted the test set will verify that the remote test set responder is properly looped down Dur ing this time the test set screen displays LOOP DOWN VERIFICATION PLEASE WAIT If the BERT is unsuccessful the test set screen displays LOOP DOWN SUCCESSFUL If the BERT is successful the test set screen displays LOOP DOWN FAILED 20 Ethernet Module 2 3 BERT Throughput This menu screen contains the following items e BERT CONFIGURATION e MEASUREMENTS e QUICK TEST Notes e BERT THROUGHPUT is only available for the P TO P con figuration e Additional configuration items are located in MEASUREMENTS SETUP in the Ethernet main menu See Section 2 6 2 3 1 BERT Configuration 11 50 45 gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt gt BERT CONFIGURATION BERT CONFIGURATION TEST TEST TEST PATTERN OF MAC ADDRS FRAME LENGTH r OF VLAN TRAFFIC SHAPING TEST PATTERN SEQUENCE A FRAME LENGTH TRAFFIC SHAPING SEQUENCE Layer 1 Configuration Screen Layer 2 Configuration Screen 11 50 45 gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt BERT CONFIGURATION TEST OF MAC ADDRS OF VLAN OF IP ADDRS TEST PATTERN FRAME LENGTH TRAFFIC SHAPING SEQUENCE DISABLE CD Layer 3 Configuration Screen Figure 8 BERT Configuration Screens TEST Options LAYER 1 F1 LAYER 2 F2 LAYER 3 F3 This setting defines the frame format used for the BERT Re
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8. CONFIG F1 MENU F2 QUICK F3 Determine the default screen or function at start up of the test set e CONFIG The CONFIGURATION screen is shown on start up e MENU The Ethernet main menu screen is shown on start up e QUICK Thetest set on start up goes to the BERT THROUGH PUT QUICK TEST results screen see Section 2 3 3 AUTO NEGO Options ENABLE F1 DISABLE F2 RESTART F4 If Auto Negotiation is enabled the highest capacities 100BaseT full duplex will be advertised e ENABLE Press to enable auto negotiation with the link partner e DISABLE Press to disable the auto negotiation process e RESTART Press to restart the auto negotiation process with the link partner If AUTO NEGO is disabled the following two parameters will need to be configured INTERFACE Options 10BT F1 100BT F2 RESTART F4 Choose the connection speed e 10BT The local device will attempt to link up at 10 Mbps e 100BT The local device will attempt to link up at 100 Mbps e RESTART Press to restart the negotiation process with the link partner MODE Options H DPLX F1 F DPLX F2 RESTART F4 Choose either half duplex or full duplex e H DPLX The local device will attempt to link up in half duplex mode this means that the data cannot be transmitted and received at the same time e F DPLX The local device will attempt to link up in full duplex mode this means that the data can be transmitted and received at t
9. IP SRC 63 MAC DST 63 MAC SRC 63 VLAN 63 106 Ethernet Module Roundtrip Delay Results Screen TX FR 64 LOST FR 64 ROUNDTRIP DELAY 64 T Tables 01 Recommended Cables 7 02 Ethernet Auto Negotiation 14 03 Pause Priority Resolution 15 Test Patterns 0000 23 1010 23 1111 23 2e11 23 2e15 23 2e20 23 2623 23 2631 23 2e9 23 CJPAT 24 CRPAT 24 CSPAT 24 USER 23 Test Set LEDs ALARM 8 BIT ERR 8 ERRORS 8 MODULE 8 PAT SYNC 8 SIGNAL SSMTT or T1 E1 SIG SSxDSL and FRAME 8 Throughput Measurement Screens 79 Throughput Test Configuration Screen DURATION 74 RESOLUTION 74 START BANDWIDTH 73 Top Banner Screen Definitions P1 100BFX F DPLX 10 P1 100BFX H DPLX 10 P1 100BT F DPLX 9 P1 100BT H DPLX 9 P1 10BT F DPLX 9 P1 10BT H DPLX 9 P1 LINK DOWN 9 P1or P2 100BT F DPLX 9 P1 or P2 10BT F DPLX 9 P1 or P2 LINK DOWN 9 SSMOD 28 107 Trace Results Screen DESTINATION IP 57 ET 57 Hop 58 Host Address 58 LOCAL IP 57 msec 58 ST 57 Type ECHO MISS and TTL 58 Transceiver Install and removal 6 U User Threshold Adjustment Screen 77 V View Print Results Deleting a Stored Test 85 Locking and Unlocking a Stored Test 85 Printing a Stored Test 85 Renaming a Stored Test 85 Saving a Test 84 Viewing a Stored Test 85 WwW Warnings 2 108 Ethernet Module
10. Note Monitor mode does not allow half duplex links 3 Press ESC to return to ETHERNET main menu and make sure that the link is up on the P1 and P2 ports Refer to the top line of the screen for information on the status of the P1 and P2 ports or to the LEDs on the module 4 From the ETHERNET main menu select STATISTICS to view the statistics on the traffic Refer to Section 2 4 for interpreta tion of these results 94 Ethernet Module 4 1 Ethernet Overview Ethernet is a major networking protocol Of all current networking protocols Ethernet provides the greatest cost performance rela tive to Token Ring Fiber Distributed Data Interface FDDI and ATM for desktop connectivity The term Ethernet refers to IEEE 802 3 Ethernet using twisted pair cables has two standards they are e 10 Mbps Ethernet 10BaseT e 100 Mbps Ethernet 100BaseT Ethernet devices support half duplex operation where data is not simultaneously received and transmitted The CSMA CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access Collision Detection protocol is used so that two stations can share a half duplex environment Carrier Sense Each station continuously listens for traffic Multiple Access Stations may be transmitting anytime they detect the network is quiet Collision Detect If two stations begin transmitting at the same time they are able to detect a collision has occurred before they finish transmitting the frame The stations stop transmitting as so
11. modifying them e If Layer 2 is selected the test set can transmit a Layer 2 loop up or loop down command to a remote test set configured as a responder Upon receiving the Layer 2 loop up command the remote test set will retransmit the incoming frames and swap the source and destination MAC address fields e If Layer 3 is selected the test set can transmit a Layer 3 loop up or loop down command to a remote test set configured as a responder Upon receiving the Layer 3 loop up command the remote test set will retransmit the incoming frames and swap the source and destination MAC and IP address fields Note Layer 3 loopback can only be used in a network where the source and destination IP addresses are located in the same network direct routing It will not function through a gateway 18 Ethernet Module MAC SRC Enter the local MAC address hardware address of the test set This is displayed only if LAYER 2 or LAYER 3 is selected e Use SHIFT and the numeric keypad to enter the addresses use the arrow F2 and F3 keys to navigate the line while the SHIFT key is active e You may also press DEFAULT F1 and the test set will use its unique default MAC address based on the serial number of the chassis MAC DST Enter the MAC address hardware address of the remote test set responder This is displayed only if LAYER 2 or LAYER 3 is selected e Use SHIFT and the numeric keypad to enter the addresses use the arrow F2 and F
12. 0 to 64 default is O The number of VLAN selects the optional number of VLAN tags conforming to IEEE 802 1Q and IEEE 802 1P that will be added to the traffic flow s If you enter 0 no VLAN tags will be added to the traffic flow s You can enter a maximum number of VLAN equal to the number of MAC addresses selected for the test For example if the number of MAC addresses used for the test is 20 then you can enter any number of VLAN between 0 and 20 If you enter 0 no VLAN tags will be added to the test frames If you enter 1 the same VLAN tag will be added to all of the test frames If you enter 2 50 of the traffic will be generated with VLAN 1 tag and the other 50 will have VLAN 2 tag If you enter 20 each test frame will be generated with a different VLAN tag e Use the SHIFT and numeric keys to enter a number 30 Ethernet Module You can edit the VLAN tags priority bits IEEE 802 1P and VLAN IDs IEEE 802 1Q by pressing EDIT F1 The editing screen is shown in Figure 16 This screen is not available if VLAN 0 The number of lines in this editing screen will vary according to the number of VLAN 1 64 entered If more than five VLAN are entered a scroll bar is displayed as shown in Figure 16 Use the keypad up down cursor keys to scroll 11 50 45 gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt VLAN VLAN VLAN 1 8 P VID 0 0 0 VLAN 2 P VID VLAN 3 P VLAN 4 P VLAN 5 VID VID 0 VID
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14. DPLX CONFIGURATION CONFIGURATION PORT MA PORT ROAD OPERATION P TO P OPERATION MONITOR START UP QUICK TEST P1 AUTO NEGO DISABLE AUTO NEGO DISABLE P1 INTERFACE 10BT INTERFACE 100BT P1 MODE F DPLX MODE F DPLX P2 AUTO NEGO DISABLE P2 INTERFACE 10BT PAUSE ENABLE P2 MODE F DPLX 10 100 T UTC 10 1007 d P TO P AUTO NEGO disabled Monitor AUTO NEGO disabled PORT 10 100T gt P1 100BFX H DPLX gt P1 100BFX F DPLX ea gt CONFIGURATION CONFIGURATION PORT PORT OPERATION P TO P OPERATION P TO P START UP QUICK TEST START UP QUICK TEST MODE H DPLX MODE F DPLX PAUSE ENABLE 10 100 T LUT 10 100 J J MODE H DPLX MODE F DPLX PORT 100FX Note The above screens reflect an FX optioned module for the standard module the PORT line is removed along with the bottom two screens marked PORT 100FX Figure 6 Configuration Screens The configuration screens contain the following PORT FX optioned only Options 100FX F1 10 100T F2 Select function and ports 12 Ethernet Module e 100FX Selects the 100BaseFX interface for the test e 10 100T Selects the 10 100BaseT interface for the test OPERATION Options P TO P F1 MONITOR F2 e P TO P Use for Point to Point BERT Throughput PING IP applications connecting through the P1 port e MONITOR Use for monitoring applications P1 and P2 ports are used This is not available if PORT 100FX START UP Options
15. OPERATION mode is set for MONITOR It is not available for the optional 100BaseFx interface This mode is set in ETHERNET main menu gt CONFIGURATION Refer to Section 2 1 for setup details There are three statistics screens available They are shown in Figures 27 28 and 29 To display the screens use the keypad up down cursor keys the scroll bar at the right of the screen indi cates the screen The screens have common F keys They are STOP F3 Press this key to manually stop the test If pressed the following F keys appear PRINT F1 Allows printing of all three screens to the serial port of the test set Refer to Section 2 7 and your test set s user manual for further information STORE F2 Allows storing of all three screens Refer to Sec tion 2 7 for further information START F3 Restarts the monitoring and resets ET and the counters 10 50 10 gt P1 100BT F DPLX lt gt P2 100BT F DPLX lt ST 10 48 55 ET 000 01 15 LINE 1 NO ERRORS LINE 2 NO ERRORS Figure 27 Measurement Monitoring Status Screen The first screen reports the following ST Start Time of the measurement ET Elapsed Time of the measurement LINE 1 Displays the status of the P1 port this can display NO ERRORS SIGNAL LOSS or ERROR DET LINE 2 Displays the status of the P2 port this can display NO ERRORS SIGNAL LOSS or ERROR DET SSMOD 28 45 Press the keypad down cursor key to display the second screen show
16. and Procedures The number entry fields in the IP CONNECTION STATUS screen have common F keys They are lt F2 Moves the insertion point one place to the left gt F3 Moves the insertion point one place to the right CONNECT DISC F4 Use this key to start or stop the procedure at any time Once CONNECT is pressed the connection will stay UP if successful or DOWN if unsuccessful In either case you must press DISC to change any configuration items Note To enter numbers press SHIFT and use the numeric keys Depending on the entry field the lt and gt cursor movement keys may be available use them to move within the field when the SHIFT key is active Configure the following SSMOD 28 49 IP TYPE Options STATIC F1 DHCP F2 e Static IP management means that the IP address is fixed to the terminal This address must be known for successful testing Enter it in the LOCAL IP field e DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol provides a way for computers to obtain protocol configuration parameters like the local IP address dynamically from the network In this case the IP address is not fixed to the terminal instead the terminal requests an address from the DHCP server in the network When DHCP is selected for IP ADDRESS the test set sends a DHCP request to the server the server responds and provides an IP address Note that upon selecting DHCP the LOCAL IP setting disappears the IP address wil
17. and use the numeric keys Depending on the entry field the lt and gt cursor movement keys may be available use them to move within the field when the SHIFT key is active Configure the following 62 Ethernet Module FRAME LENGTH Options 64 to 1518 bytes or jumbo frame up to 2032 bytes Enter the desired test Frame Length OF FRAMES Options 1 to 999 or CONTINU F1 Enter the desired of Frames FORMAT Options LAYER 1 F1 LAYER 2 F2 LAYER 3 F3 Select the test frame format For further information on frame layers refer to Section 2 3 1 MAC SRC and MAC DST Enter the MAC address source local hardware address and the destination MAC address remote device hardware address These parameters are displayed only if FORMAT LAYER 2 or 3 is selected VLAN DISABLED F1 ENABLED F2 Select if the test frames need to carry VLAN tags This parameter is displayed only if FORMAT LAYER 2 or 3 is selected If enabled enter the P Priority and VID VLAN ID parameters For further information on P and VID refer to Section 2 3 1 OF VLAN IP SRC and IP DST Select the IP address source local network layer address and the destination IP address network layer address of the remote device This parameter is displayed only if FORMAT LAYER 3 is selected When ready press START F4 After pressing START F4 the test set verifies that the circuit is in a looped state This is indicated on screen by
18. e ECHO This means that the destination IP has responded e MISS This means that a router or destination IP has not re sponded e TTL This means that the Time To Live field of the PING message has been decremented and successfully passed a router msec Duration of a hop Host Address This is the responding router s IP address 58 Ethernet Module 2 5 1 4 Echo Response The Echo Response test runs in background mode when the IP connection is up updating results continuously However the screen is displayed only when ECHO RESPONSE is selected Use PAGE UP F1 and PAGE DN F2 to scroll through the available screens Note Make sure that you have pressed CONNECT F4 in the IP CONNECTION STATUS screen and that IP UP is displayed 12 03 43 gt P1 100BT F DPLX lt gt H lt ST 12 00 00 ET 000 03 43 LOCAL IP 38 168 47 121 ECHO RESPONSE OF ECHOED IPS 1 PAGE 1 PING FROM 12 02 43 206 181 199 105 10 PAGE UPIPAGE DN Figure 37 Echo Response Screen The following items are displayed ST Indicates when CONNECT F4 was pressed in the IP CON NECTION STATUS screen ET Elapsed time since CONNECT F4 was pressed in the IP CONNECTION STATUS screen LOCAL IP If static IP TYPE is selected then this is entered in the IP CONNECTION STATUS screen If DHCP is selected then the address is assigned dynamically by the network OF ECHOED IPS Indicates the number of different IP ad dresses which s
19. is computed as a function of the contents of the source ad dress destination address length and data fields 4 1 1 2 Frame Rate The Frame Rate FR is the number of Frames per second Fps FR is determined by the following formulas bps rate FR FL x 8 IPG Preamble SFD The maximum FR per IEEE standard For Fast Ethernet 100BaseT 100 000 000 148 809 Fps 68 x 8 96 56 8 For Ethernet 10BaseT FR 10 000 000 __ 14 880 Fps T 68x8 96 56 8 The following is found in the FR formulas bps The bits per second rate is the transmit clock frequency The maximum clock frequency of 100 000 000 bps corresponds to 100 Bandwidth for 100BaseT 10 000 000 bps for 10BaseT FL Frame Length from 64 Bytes to 1518 Bytes IPG Inter Packet Gap is the time delay between successive frames Ethernet devices must allow a minimum idle period be tween transmission of frames known as the IPG It provides a brief recovery time between frames to allow devices to prepare for reception of the next frame The minimum interframe gap is 96 bit times which is 0 96 microseconds for fast Ethernet 100BaseT and 9 6 microseconds for Ethernet 10BaseT Preamble This 56 bit field begins a frame transmission SFD Start of Frame Delimiter 8 bits is the sequence 10101011 that immediately follows the preamble and indicates the start of a frame SSMOD 28 97 98 Ethernet Module A App
20. mode the test set will adapt the loopback mechanism to your network configuration as follows If your network configuration is similar to the one depicted in Figure 58 the loopback should be configured for Layer 1 In this configuration the looped test set will retransmit the incom ing frames with out modifying them If your network configuration is similar to the one depicted in Figure 59 the loopback should be configured for Layer 2 In this configuration the looped test set will retransmit the incom ing frames and swap the source and destination MAC address fields Notes Layer 2 and Layer 3 loopback mechanism will loop all incoming unicast traffic and discard multicast and broadcast traffic Use caution when using loopback mode because some net work equipment may not allow the loopback of some unicast frames SSMOD 28 93 3 5 Monitor Mode 1 Monitor mode can be used in Pass Through mode In this mode the test set is inserted between two devices and monitors the frames in both directions full duplex Refer to Figure 62 Figure 62 Pass Through Mode Connection Note In monitor mode Pass Through the module is not intrusive and will not generate traffic BER or PING testing 2 Turn on the test set and press the MODULE key From the ETHERNET main menu select CONFIGURATION and con figure as follows OPERATION MONITOR P1 AUTO NEGO ENABLE recommended setting P2 AUTO NEGO ENABLE recommended setting
21. ready press START F4 or ENTER After starting the test the test set detects the wiring of pins 1 2 3 and 6 and determines the cable type straight or crossover The following screens can be displayed SSMOD 28 65 12 03 43 gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt CABLE TEST CABLE TEST TEST STRAIGHT TEST CROSSOVER 12 03 43 gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt CABLE TEST TEST OPEN ies ci 2 a2 3 3 6 6 Figure 42 Cable Test Result Screens As shown in Figure 42 the screen will tell you if you have a straight crossover or open no connection cable When done press ESC and disconnect your cable from the test set 66 Ethernet Module 2 5 4 Bandwidth Sweep This test generates a ramping traffic flow until lost frames or flow control pause frames are detected At this point the test stops This test can be performed only if there is a loop a loopback plug or another test set in loopback at the far end To configure a test set for loopback see Section 2 2 To perform this test select from the ETHERNET main menu ADVANCED FEATURES gt BANDWIDTH SWEEP The following screens can be displayed depending on the FORMAT setting 1250343 gt P1 100BT F DPLX BANDWIDTH SWEEP FRAME LENGTH 64 BANDWIDTH START 1 STOP 100 STEP 1 STEP DURATION 2 s PAUSE FRAME DETECTION ENABLED gt P1 100BT F DPLX BANDWIDTH SWEEP FRAME LENGTH 64 BANDWIDTH START 1 STOP 100 STEP 1 STEP DURATION 2 s PAUSE
22. repeating high transition density patterns CRPAT Compliant Random Test Pattern is intended to provide broad spectral content and minimal peaking that can be used for the measurement of jitter at either a component or system level CSPAT Compliant Supply Noise Pattern creates the worst case power supply noise introduced by the transceiver Notes e CJPAT CRPAT and CSPAT are only available if Layer 1 test is selected and require a fixed frame length of 1504 1422 or 2048 bytes respectively e CONST traffic shaping at 100 is supported for the CJPAT CRPAT and CSPAT test patterns FRAME LENGTH Options 64 F1 1518 F2 or set by pressing SHIFT and using the numeric keys The range of frame length is from 64 to 1518 bytes with steps of 1 byte or jumbo frames with a range of 1519 to 24000 bytes with steps of 1 byte The default value is 64 TRAFFIC SHAPING Options CONST F1 RAMP F2 BURST F3 EDIT F4 e CONST Constant traffic means that the traffic is transmitted at a constant rate from 0 to 100 Bandwidth with steps of 0 01 for the entire duration of the test e RAMP The traffic is transmitted at a variable rate from START BANDWIDTH between 0 and 100 to STOP BANDWIDTH between 0 and 100 with increments of STEP between 1 and 100 The ramp is repeated for the duration of the test e BURST The traffic is transmitted at a variable rate The traffic will be transmitted at BANDWIDTH 1 rate from 0 to 1
23. restart press again to stop testing The screens are shown in the following figure 12703243 gt P1 100BT F DPLX 12 03 43 gt P1 100BT F DPLX Pa AA THROUGHPUT TEST LOG THROUGHPUT TEST TABLE THROUGHPUT LENGTH STATUS LENGTH STATUS gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt lt THROUGHPUT GRAPH 0 64 256 1024 1518 LENGTH 128 THROUGHPUT 100 00 a Figure 53 Throughput Measurement Screens In the THROUGHPUT GRAPH screen shown at the top right of Figure 53 use the keypad up down cursor keys to see all of the data In the THROUGHPUT GRAPH screen shown at the bottom of Figure 53 the cursor is indicated by the triple vertical line In this example it s located at the LENGTH 128 with a THROUGHPUT 100 00 Move the cursor to show details of other LENGTHs using the keypad left right cursor keys When done viewing press ESC SSMOD 28 79 2 5 5 4 2 Latency Measurement This test presents results in a table format It s shown in the fol lowing figure 12 03 43 gt P1 100BT F DPLX LATENCY TABLE LENGTH RATE LATENCY STATUS 00444ms 00065ms 02095ms 02095ms 02095ms 02095ms 02079ms eS ORE START J Figure 54 Latency Table Screen The table reports the RATE at which the Latency test was done It is reported as a percentage the LATENCY in milli seconds ms and a PASS FAIL STATUS as determined by the settings in the USER THRESHOLD screen shown in Figure 52 The s
24. the number SSMOD 28 55 Press START F4 and observe the following on the PING line PING Indicates the test hasn t been started PING IN PROGRESS Indicates the test is not yet completed PING PASS Indicates at least one echo response has been received PING FAIL Indicates that an echo response has not been re ceived PING ARP FAIL Indicates that the destination IP address or Gateway have not responded to the ARP Address Resolution Protocol request The bottom part of the screen displays the statistics of the PING test Sent Indicates the number of PINGs sent to the network Recv d Indicates the number of correct echo responses re ceived Unreach Indicates the number of echo responses with an un reach flag Missing Indicates the number of echo responses missing Round Trip Indicates the measure of the round trip delay in milli seconds This is broken down into the following three measure ments Crnt Indicates the current PING round trip delay Avg Indicates the average of all round trip delay Max Min Indicates both the maximum and minimum values of round trip delay 56 Ethernet Module 2 5 1 3 Trace Route Before running TRACE ROUTE make sure that you have pressed CONNECT F4 in the IP CONNECTION STATUS screen and that IP UP is displayed Trace Route sends PING messages to a destination address and traces these messages across the routers through which they travel The sc
25. the test press YES F1 to stop the test press NO F2 to continue with the test If you stop the test the test set will give you the option of storing the test results press YES F1 to store it press NO F2 to not store the results Once testing is completed the test set indicates this with an on screen message The following tests can produce results if selected in the previous configuration screens THROUGHPUT MEASUREMENT LATENCY MEASUREMENT FRAME LOSS RATE BURSTABILITY Note These tests will be available in a later software release e o o 2 5 5 4 1 Throughput Measurement There are three screens available Log Table and Graph The log provides a PASS FAIL STATUS of each frame length and it s RATE The table provides the frame length s THROUGHPUT and STATUS PASS FAIL depending on the USER THRESHOLD screen settings The graph gives you a bar graph of the frame length in a percentage The three screens contain the following common F keys TABLE F1 Displays the table view GRAPH F1 or F2 Displays the graph view LOG F2 Displays the log view STORE F3 Stores the test results refer to the appropriate chap ter in your test set s user manual for details Note that these stored results are only accessible from the RFC2544 sub menu or the test set s MENU key They are not accessible from the module s VIEW PRINT menu described in Section 2 7 78 Ethernet Module START STOP F4 Press to
26. you are look ing at In Figure 25 the page indicator shows P 001 indicating page 1 42 Ethernet Module 2 3 3 Quick Test Quick Test allows for a simple pass fail preconfigured BERT Throughput test Once configured connect the test set to the circuit turn on the test set and the test results are presented Figure 26 shows a sample results screen To set up a Quick Test on test set start up follow the instructions given in Section 2 1 and select QUICK TEST on the START UP line To select the BER test configuration follow the instructions given in Section 2 3 1 gt P1 100BT F DPLX PATT 2e31 lt ST 10 48 55 ET 000 01 15 STATUS NO ERRORS OK RESULTS BIT 0 0 00E 00 CRC 0 0 00E 00 LOST FRM 0 COL N A N A XS COL N A N A LT COL N A N A TX RATE 1 68 94 UTIL 68 94 RX RATE 9 91 UTIL 9 91 PATTERN STOP J PRINT J Figure 26 Quick Test Results Screen The STATUS line on the results screen can report the following e NO ERROR Test is successful e SIGNAL LOSS No signal detected on the P1 port e PAT LOSS No pattern synchronization has been acquired or there has been pattern synchronization but it is now lost Pattern synchronization is acquired when in any pseudo random bit sequence 2e31 2e23 etc 56 bits are checked and there are no bit errors If a fixed pattern 1111 1010 etc is used then 256 bits have been checked with no bit errors Loss of pa
27. 00 for DURATION 1 seconds then at BANDWIDTH 2 rate from 0 to 100 for DURATION 2 seconds This sequence is repeated for the duration of the test e EDIT Press to access the parameters for CONST RAMP and BURST as shown in Figures 12 13 and 14 24 Ethernet Module 11 50 45 gt P1 100BT F DPLX TRAFFIC SHAPING TRAFFIC SHAPING CoS BANDWIDTH 68 94 CONST RAMP Jt BURST A d Figure 12 Constant Traffic Shaping Screen The following appears in Figure 12 if CONST is pressed BANDWIDTH Options 0 to 100 This sets the frame transmission speed with steps of 0 01 e To set press SHIFT and use the numeric keys Use the lt F2 and gt F3 keys to move the insertion point Notes e If link speed is 10 Mbps 10BaseT and bandwidth is set at 1 then traffic is transmitted at 100 kbps If bandwidth is set at 100 then traffic is transmitted at 10 Mbps e If bandwidth is set for 0 the test set will not be sending traf fic it will only receive e If link speed is 100 Mbps 100BaseT and bandwidth is set at 1 then traffic is transmitted at 1 Mbps If bandwidth is set at 100 then traffic is transmitted at 100 Mbps When done press SAVE F4 to return to the previous configura tion screen Note In the following Traffic Shaping Screens to enter a number press SHIFT and use the numeric keys SSMOD 28 25 11 50 45 gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt TRAFFIC SHAPING TRAFFIC SHAPING START BANDWIDT
28. 00 00 MAC DST 00 00 00 00 00 00 VLAN ENABLED Figure 45 RFC2544 Frame Format Screens Notes e Use the SHIFT and numeric keys to enter a number e A highlighted YES or NO indicates the state of the selection Configure the following TEST Options LAYER 1 F1 LAYER 2 F2 LAYER 3 F3 Select the test frame format For further information on frame layers refer to Sections 2 2 and 2 3 SSMOD 28 71 MAC SRC and MAC DST Enter the MAC address source local hardware address and the destination MAC address remote device hardware address These parameters are displayed only if TEST LAYER 2 or 3 is selected VLAN DISABLED F1 ENABLED F2 Select if the test frames need to carry VLAN tags This parameter is displayed only if TEST LAYER 2 or 3 is selected If enabled enter the P Priority and VID VLAN ID parameters For further information on P and VID refer to Section 2 3 1 OF VLAN IP SRC and IP DST Select the IP address source local network layer address and the destination IP address network layer address of the remote device This parameter is displayed only if TEST LAYER 3 is selected When done press NEXT F4 2 5 5 2 Select Frame Length 12 03 43 gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt REC2544 FRAME LENGTH Figure 46 RFC2544 Frame Length Selection Screen Select the Ethernet frame length using the up down cursor key and YES F2 or NO F3 the default is for all to be selected YES If a frame l
29. 01 15 ST 10 48 55 RT CONTINU FRAME STATISTICS FRAMES FPS Min Max Avg 6550 6550 RUNTS O 0OVERSIZED MULTICAST 921 BROADCAST FLOW CONTROL 0 stop AT OFF BFL CTRL Figure 22 BERT Results Frame Screen This screen displays transmit TX and receive RX frame statis tics If the TX or RX FRAMES counter exceeds 9 digits the dis play format will change to x xxxxEyy where x xxxx is the coefficient and yy is the power of 10 The screen reports the following FRAMES Number of received transmitted frames FPS Transmitted TX and received RX frames per second Min Minimum transmitted TX and received RX frames per second since the beginning of the test Max Maximum transmitted TX and received RX frames per second since the beginning of the test Avg Average transmitted TX and received RX frames per second over the duration of the test In the following measurements if the counters exceed 4 digits the display format will change to x xEy where x x is the coefficient and y is the power of 10 RUNTS Number of undersized fragments frames received OVERSIZED Number of oversized frames received A frame is con sidered oversized when it is a jumbo frame 1519 bytes or more MULTICAST Number of multicast frames received A multicast frame is a frame that is intended for multiple devices on the net work A multicast MAC address always starts with 01 hex prefix This displays N A i
30. 10 gt P1 100BT F DPLX lt gt ET 000 01 15 ST 10 48 55 RT CONTINU TEST LAYER 1 64Bytes BURST LINE 1 NO ERRORS TX RATE 9 91 Mbps UTIL 9 91 RX RATE 68 94 Mbps UTIL 68 94 stop AT OFF RFit CTRL Figure 19 BERT Results Status Screen This screen reports the following TEST Type of test configured in the BERT CONFIGURATION screen LINE 1 Displays a summary of the status of the test It can be e NO ERRORS Test is successful e SIGNAL LOSS No signal detected on the P1 port the LOS and LOSS counters are incrementing e PAT LOSS No pattern synchronization has been acquired or there has been pattern synchronization but it is now lost Pattern synchronization is acquired when in any pseudo ran dom bit sequence 2e31 2e23 etc 56 bits are checked and there are no bit errors If a fixed pattern 1111 1010 etc is used then 256 bits have been checked with no bit errors Loss of pattern is detected when the BER is greater than or equal to 0 2 over a 1 second period e ERROR DET Bit or CRC errors are currently being detected or have been previously detected e NO RX DATA Test set is not receiving Ethernet frames Note The error condition on the STATUS screen can be ac knowledged and cleared by pressing HISTORY TX RATE Transmit data rate in kbps or Mbps TX RATE UTIL Transmitted percentage bandwidth utilization as set in the BERT CONFIGURATION screen RX RATE Received data r
31. 100BT F DPLX This indicates that the link is up in 100Ba seT full duplex mode gt P1 100BT H DPLX This indicates that the linkis up in 100Ba seT half duplex mode gt P1 10BT F DPLX This indicates that the linkis up in 10BaseT full duplex mode gt P1 10BT H DPLX This indicates that the linkis up in 10BaseT half duplex mode gt P1 LINK DOWN This indicates that the link is down In MONITOR mode the banner at the top left of the right screen shown in Figure 3 indicates the status of the P1 and P2 ports It can be gt P1 or P2 100BT F DPLX This indicates that the link is up in 100BaseT full duplex mode gt P1 or P2 10BT F DPLX This indicates that the link is up in 10BaseT full duplex mode gt P1 or P2 LINK DOWN This indicates that the link is down SSMOD 28 9 1 3 1 Additional Banner Definitions for the FX Option 11 50 45 gt P1 100BFX F DPLX ETHERNET MAIN MENU CONFIGURATION PORT 100 LOPA eru OPERATION P TO P ADVANCED FEATURES MEASUREMENTS SETUP VIEW PRINT RESULTS Figure 4 FX Optioned Ethernet Main Menu Screen In addition to the previously defined banners the FX optioned module can display the following banners at the top left of the screen in Figure 4 indicates the status of the link on the 100FX port It can be e gt P1 100BFX F DPLX This indicates that the link is up in 100BaseFX full duplex mode e gt P1 100BFX H DPLX This indicates that the link is up in 100BaseFX half duplex mode
32. 2 default is enabled If enabled the bandwidth sweep will stop when a pause frame is detected otherwise if disabled the sweep will continue LOSS FRAME DETECTION Options ENABLE F1 DISABLE F2 default is enabled If enabled the bandwidth sweep will stop when a lost frame is detected otherwise if disabled the sweep will continue FORMAT Options LAYER 1 F1 LAYER 2 F2 LAYER 3 F3 Select the test frame format For further information on frame layers refer to Sections 2 2 and 2 3 MAC SRC and MAC DST Enter the MAC address source local hardware address and the destination MAC address remote device hardware address These parameters are displayed only if FORMAT LAYER 2 or 3 is selected VLAN DISABLED F1 ENABLED F2 Select if the test frames need to carry VLAN tags This parameter is displayed only if FORMAT LAYER 2 or 3 is selected If enabled enter the P Priority and VID VLAN ID parameters For further information on P and VID refer to Section 2 3 1 OF VLAN IP SRC and IP DST Select the IP address source local network layer address and the destination IP address network layer address of the remote device These parameters are displayed only if FORMAT LAYER 3 is selected 68 Ethernet Module When ready press START F4 After pressing START F4 the test set verifies that the circuit is in a looped state This is indicated on screen by LOOPBACK VERIFICATION PLEASE WAIT
33. 3 keys to navigate the line while the SHIFT key is active VLAN DISABLED F1 ENABLED F2 Selects if the loop up and down commands need to carry a VLAN tag This is displayed only for if LAYER 2 or LAYER 3 is selected If enabled enter the P Priority and VID VLAN ID parameters using SHIFT and the numeric keypad For further information on P and VID refer to Section 2 3 1 OF VLAN IP SRC Enter the local IP address network layer address of the test set This is displayed only for if LAYER 3 is selected e Use SHIFT and the numeric keypad to enter the numbers use the arrow F2 and F3 keys to navigate the line while the SHIFT key is active IP DST Enter the IP address network layer address of the remote test set responder This is displayed only for if Layer 3 format is selected e Use SHIFT and the numeric keypad to enter the numbers use the arrow F2 and F3 keys to navigate the line while the SHIFT key is active SSMOD 28 19 In Controller Mode When ready press START F4 and the test set will be placed in controller mode and it will send a loop up or loop down frame When the loop up command is transmitted the test set will verify that the remote test set responder is properly looped up During this time the test set screen displays LOOP UP VERIFICATION PLEASE WAIT If the BERT is successful the test set screen displays LOOP UP SUCCESSFUL If not the test set screen displays
34. EP x x s The Step percentage over the step duration in seconds selected in the configuration screen TEST RUNNING TEST COMPLETED Indicates the status of the test along with the progress bar TX RATE Transmit Rate in Mbps TX UTIL Percentage of Transmit Utilization RX RATE Receive Rate in Mbps RX UTIL Percentage of Receive Utilization SSMOD 28 69 FLOW CONTROL If a Flow Control frame is received the test stops If Pause Frame Detection has been disabled in the con figuration screen then this will not be shown LOST FRAMES If a Lost frame occurs the test stops If Loss Frame Detection has been disabled in the configuration screen then this will not be shown After the test is completed the following F keys are available PRINT F2 Press to send the results to the serial port for printing STORE F3 Press to store your results refer to Section 2 7 START F4 Press to restart the test along with resetting the ET counter 70 Ethernet Module 2 5 5 RFC2544 This menu contains the following e SELECT FRAME FORMAT e SELECT FRAME LENGTH e SELECT TEST SEQUENCE e RUN TEST e VIEW PRINT RESULTS see your test set user manual Note These are shortcuts to their respective configuration screens 2 5 5 1 Select Frame Format lt REC2544 FRAME FORMAT REC2544 FRAME FORMAT We TEST Dew MAC SRC 00 00 00 00 00 00 MAC DST 00 00 00 00 00 00 RFEC2544 FRAME FORMAT TEST MAC SRC 00 00 00 00
35. EW F1 or F2 and the stored result will appear 4 Use the keypad up down cursor keys to scroll through the available screens 5 Whenfinished press ESC to return to the STORED RESULTS list screen 2 7 3 Printing a Stored Test 1 Connect a SunSet printer to the serial port of the test set e For other types of printers or for more information refer to the Storing and Printing chapter in the test set user s manual 2 From the module main menu select VIEW PRINT RESULTS or press any STORE F key see Figure 56 Select the desired file with the keypad up down cursor keys Press PRINT F3 or more F1 and the file will begin printing When finished press ESC to return to the STORED RESULTS list screen oR Oo 2 7 4 Deleting a Stored Test 1 From the module main menu select VIEW PRINT RESULTS or press any STORE F key see Figure 56 2 Select the desired file with the keypad up down cursor keys 3 Press CLEAR F2 or F3 and the file is deleted if unlocked 2 7 5 Locking and Unlocking a Stored Test 1 From the module main menu select VIEW PRINT RESULTS or press any STORE F key see Figure 56 2 Select the desired file with the keypad up down cursor keys 3 Press UN LOCK F4 or more F2 and the file is locked or unlocked as indicated to the right of the file name Refer to the lock icon shown in Figure 56 2 7 6 Renaming a Stored Test 1 From the module s main menu select VIEW TEST RESULT 2 Select t
36. FRAME DETECTION ENABLED LOSS FRAME DETECTION ENABLED LOSS FRAME DETECTION ENABLED FORMAT EMR FORMAT MAC SRC 00 DO DD 06 05 81 MAC DST 00 00 00 00 00 00 VLAN ENABLED P 0 VID 0 12 03 43 gt P1 100BT F DPLX 7 BANDWIDTH SWEEP FRAME LENGTH 64 BANDWIDTH START 1 STOP 100 STEP 1 STEP DURATION 2 s PAUSE FRAME DETECTION ENABLED LOSS FRAME DETECTION ENABLED FORMAT MAC SRC 00 DO DD 06 05 81 MAC DST 00 00 00 00 00 00 VLAN ENABLED P 0 VID 0 IP src 0 0 0 0 IP DST 0 0 0 0 Figure 43 Bandwidth Sweep Configuration Screens Note To enter numbers press SHIFT and use the numeric keys Depending on the entry field the lt and gt cursor movement keys may be available use them to move within the field when the SHIFT key is active Configure the following FRAME LENGTH Options 64 to 1518 bytes or jumbo frame up to 12 000 bytes default is 64 bytes Enter the desired Frame Length BANDWIDTH START Options 1 to 100 default is 1 SSMOD 28 67 Select at what percentage bandwidth utilization the test starts at BANDWIDTH STOP Options 1 to 100 default is 100 Select at what percentage bandwidth utilization the test ends at STEP Options 1 to 99 default is 1 Select how much bandwidth increases per step STEP DURATION Options 2 to 99 seconds default is 2 seconds Select the duration of the step in seconds PAUSE FRAME DETECTION Options ENABLE F1 DISABLE F
37. H O0 STOP BANDWIDTH 100 STEP 10 STEP DURATION 10 s L CONST RAMP Jt BURST A d Figure 13 Ramp Traffic Shaping Screen The following appears in Figure 13 if RAMP is selected and EDIT F4 is pressed START BANDWIDTH Options 0 to 100 default is 0 Refer to TRAFFIC SHAPING RAMP for details on how this works STOP BANDWIDTH Options 0 to 100 default is 100 Refer to TRAFFIC SHAPING RAMP for details on how this works STEP Options 0 to 100 default is 10 Refer to TRAFFIC SHAPING RAMP for details on how this works STEP DURATION Options 2 to 999 s seconds default is 10 seconds Refer to TRAFFIC SHAPING RAMP for details on how this works When done press SAVE F4 to return to the previous configura tion screen 26 Ethernet Module 11 50 45 gt P1 LOOBT F DPLX TRAFFIC SHAPING TRAFFIC SHAPING BANDWIDTH 1 90 DURATION 1 10 s BANDWIDTH 2 0 DURATION 2 10 s CONST RAMP Jt BURST A d Figure 14 Burst Traffic Shaping Screen The following appears in Figure 14 if BURST is selected and EDIT F4 is pressed BANDWIDTH 1 Options 0 to 100 default is 100 Refer to TRAFFIC SHAPING BURST for operation details DURATION 1 Options s F1 ms F2 default is 10 seconds Refer to TRAFFIC SHAPING BURST for operation details e gs second Set the duration of the burst from 2 to 999 seconds e ms millisecond Set the duration of the burst from 9 00 to 999 99 milli
38. If the loop verification fails the test set indicates this by displaying NO LOOPBACK DETECTED TEST ABORTED If this occurs press ESC and verify your circuit After a positive loop verification a screen is displayed showing the progress of the test a Layer 1 example is shown in Figure 44 12 03 43 lt gt P1 100BT F DPLX lt lt BANDWIDTH SWEEP ST 22 07 22 ET 000 01 35 BANDWIDTH SWEEP ET 000 01 35 S T 22 07 22 FORMAT LAYER 1 FRAME LENGTH 64 TEST BANDWIDTH FROM 1 TO 100 STEP 1 2 s TEST RUNNING 1 100 TX RATE RX RATE 26 26 26 Mbps UTIL 26 Mbps UTIL FLOW CONTROL 0 LOST FRAMES 0 FORMAT LAYER 1 FRAME LENGTH 64 TEST BANDWIDTH FROM 1 TO 100 100 STEP 1 2 s 1 TX RATE RX RATE 100 Mbps UTIL 100 100 Mbps UTIL 100 FLOW CONTROL 0 LOST FRAMES 0 CD Test Completed Test Running Figure 44 Sample Bandwidth Sweep Screens During the test you may press STOP F4 at any time to stop the test Once pressed STOP is replaced by START Press START to restart the test and reset the ET counter to 0 The following information is displayed in all Layer screens ST Start Time of the test ET Elapsed Time since START was pressed FORMAT The Layer selected in the configuration screen FRAME LENGTH The Frame Length selected in the configura tion screen TEST BANDWIDTH FROM x TO x The Bandwidth Start and Stop settings selected in the configuration screen ST
39. SSS SS ae MAN 22054 US001 Rev C00 SUNRISE TELECOM l NCORPORATED Ethernet Module Part of the MTT and xDSL Family of Products User s Manual SSMOD 28M Sunrise Telecom a step ahead T 302 Enzo Drive San Jose CA 95138 Tel 1 408 363 8000 Fax 1 408 363 8313 Z WARNING Using the supplied equipment in a manner not specified by Sunrise Telecom may impair the protection provided by the equipment CAUTIONS e Do not remove or insert the module while the test set is on Inserting or removing a module with the power on may damage the module e Do not remove or insert the software cartridge while the test set is on Otherwise damage could occur to the cartridge Copyright 2004 Sunrise Telecom Incorporated This device uses software either developed by Sunrise or licensed by Sunrise from third parties The software is confidential and proprietary The software is protected by copyright and contains trade secrets of Sunrise or Sunrise s licensors The purchaser of this device agrees that it has received a license solely to use the software as embedded in the device and the purchaser is prohibited from copying reverse engineering decompiling or disassembling the software 2 Ethernet Module Ethernet Module Table of Contents 1 Ethernet Module c scccccsseeeeeeensseeeeeeenseeeeeeeessneeeeeeneas 5 Teli Modula Panola vnntividandetandanesirenensiies 5 1 2 Test Seti LEDS iniciran setae ceded 8 1 3 Top
40. TRL 41 MULTICAST 41 UNICAST 41 TOTAL RATE 41 BERT Results Events Screen 42 BERT Results Frame Screen BROADCAST 39 FLOW CONTROL 39 FRAMES 39 MULTICAST 39 OVERSIZED 39 RUNTS 39 FPS Min Max and Avg 39 100 Ethernet Module BERT Results Frame Screen 2 FRAMES RX 40 LOST FRAMES 40 NON TEST FR RX 40 OUT OF SEQ FRAMES 40 UNICAST RX 40 LOST FRAMES 40 OUT OF SEQ FRAMES 41 LOST FPS 40 OUT OF SEQ FPS 41 BERT Results Status Screen LINE 1 36 RX RATE 36 RX RATE UTIL 36 TEST 36 TX RATE 36 TX RATE UTIL 36 BERT Results Summary Screen BIT 37 BIT RATE 37 COL 37 COL RATE 37 CRC 37 CRC RATE 37 LOS 38 LOSS 38 LT COL 37 LT COL RATE 38 PATL 38 PATLS 38 XS COL 37 XS COL RATE 37 Burstability Test Configuration Screen ITERATION 77 RESOLUTION 76 START LENGTH 76 C Cable Test Result Screens 66 Cable Test Screen 65 Cautions 2 Configuration Screens ASYM PAUSE 15 AUTO NEGO 13 INTERFACE 100BT 13 10BT 13 SSMOD 28 101 Configuration Screens continued MODE F DPLX 13 H DPLX 13 OPERATION MONITOR 13 P TO P 13 PAUSE 15 PORT 10 100T 13 100FX 13 START UP CONFIG 13 MENU 13 QUICK 13 D DHCP IP Connection Status Summary Screen 53 DHCP IP Status Detail Screen 54 E Echo Response Screen OF ECHOED IPS 59 ET 59 LOCAL IP 59 PAGE 59 PING FROM 59 ST 59 TIME 59 TOTAL 59 Ethernet Frame Format 96 Ethernet Overview Carrier Sense 95 Coll
41. UGHPUT TEST SETUP gt TEST CONFIGURATION and enter the test parameters e If PING PASS is not displayed check the entered IP ad dress 7 Whenready press ENTER tostartthe test and view the results Refer to Section 2 3 2 for interpretation of the results SSMOD 28 91 3 4 Loopback Mode The loopback feature is particularly useful when running a dual ended test it allows controlling the tests BERT Throughput Roundtrip delay and Bandwidth sweep measurements from one test set test set 2 while having the remote test set test set 1 looping back the test frames Test Set 1 is setup for manual loopback Network or as a responder Test Set 2 is setup to transmit and receive Figure 61 Loopback Mode There are two possible configurations for the loopback feature 92 Manual Mode In this mode the test set will loopback all incom ing frames as soon as this mode is selected Controller Responder Mode In this mode a test set setup as a controller will send a loop up command to a test set setup as a responder The responder will then start looping all incom ing frames The responder will continue doing this until a loop down frame is received from the controller Ethernet Module Note There is no standard looping code for Ethernet the test set uses Sunrise proprietary loop up and loop down frames Hence this setup requires Sunrise equipment at both ends of the circuit In manual or controller responder
42. adjust the next measurement or press ESC to select the next measurement The next measurement shown in Figure 47 is LATENCY MEASUREMENT Latency measures the time it takes for the test frame to pass through the device under test The la tency of each frame is measured Press EDIT F4 to adjust the test parameters shown in the following figure 12 03 43 gt P1 100BT F DPLX lt gt lt LATENCY TEST CONFIGURATION BANDWIDTH MEKA DURATION 60 5s LTHRUPUT CUSTOM NEXT Figure 49 Latency Test Configuration Screen BANDWIDTH Options THRUPUT F1 CUSTOM F2 Determine the bandwidth the latency test will be done e THRUPUT Indicates that the latency test will be done at the Throughput bandwidth as determined during the Throughput test e CUSTOM Enter the bandwidth between 100 and 0 1 at which the test will be performed DURATION Options 1 through 999 seconds default is 60 s Adjust the length of the test 74 Ethernet Module When finished press NEXT F4 to adjust the next measurement or press ESC to select the next measurement The next measurement shown in Figure 47 is FRAME LOSS RATE The frame loss rate test generates a graph that shows the frame loss rate as a function of the frame rate The test begins at the starting rate usually 100 sends a number of frames and then calculates the frame loss rate as a percentage based on the following equation Input count output count x 100 Input c
43. all incoming unicast traffic and discard multicast and broadcast traffic e Use caution when using loopback mode because some net work equipment may not allow the loopback of some unicast frames 16 Ethernet Module Figure 7 shows the various loopback configuration screens 11 50 45 gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt LOOPBACK LOOPBACK MODE AUN MODE QS FORMAT LAYER 3 MODE MANUAL MODE RESPOND 11 50 45 gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt LOOPBACK MODE o COMMAND LOOP UP FORMAT LAYER 3 MAC SRC 00 00 00 00 00 00 MAC DST 00 00 00 00 00 00 VLAN ENABLED P 0 VID 0 IP SRC 0 0 0 0 IP DST 0 O0 0 0 MODE CONTROL Figure 7 Loopback Configuration Screens All three possible configuration screens contain MODE Options MANUAL F1 RESPOND F2 CONTROL F3 Select the loopback operating mode e MANUAL If selected and you press START F4 the test set will immediately start looping the incoming traffic on PORT 1 e RESPOND If selected the test set will act as a responder after pressing START F4 At this point the screen will display WAITING as the test set waits for a loop up command frame Once a loop up frame is received the screen displays LOOP BACK TEST IN PROGRESS DO NOT DISTURB The test set will then loopback traffic as was previously described in the paragraph starting with Configured as a responder in this section The test set will continue t
44. ate in kbps or Mbps RX RATE UTIL Received percentage bandwidth utilization 36 Ethernet Module Press the keypad down cursor key to display the next result screen shown in Figure 20 10 50 10 gt P1 100BT F DPLX lt gt ET 000 01 15 ST 10 48 55 RT CONTINU BIT RATE CRC RATE COL RATE XS COL RATE LT COL RATE PATL 0 PATLS LOS LOSS stop EX OFF BFL CTRL Figure 20 BERT Results Summary Screen This screen reports the following BIT Count of BIT errors since the start of the test BIT RATE Average bit error rate since the start of the test CRC Count of CRC frame check sequence errors since the beginning of the test CRC RATE Average CRC frame check sequence error rate since the start of the test COL Count of collisions since the start of the test reported N A in full duplex mode COL RATE Average collision rate since the start of the test re ported N A in full duplex mode Note Collisions are bound to happen if more than one device is transmitting simultaneously on a half duplex network XS COL Count of excess collisions since the start of the test reported N A in full duplex mode XS COL RATE Average excess collision rate since the start of the test reported N A in full duplex mode Note Excess collisions are the number of packets that have experienced 16 consecutive collisions or more LT COL Count of late collisions since the start of the test report
45. creen contains the following F keys STORE F3 Stores the test results refer to the appropriate chapter in your test set s user manual for details Note that these stored results are only accessible from the RFC2544 sub menu or the test set s MENU key They are not accessible from the module s VIEW PRINT menu described in Section 2 7 of this user manual START STOP F4 Press to restart press again to stop testing When done viewing press ESC 80 Ethernet Module 2 6 Measurements Setup This screen shown in the following figure lets you set basic param eters for BERT Throughput and IP Throughput measurements 12 03 43 gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt MEASUREMENT SETUP EVENTS RECORD gt EARS ERROR INJECTION BIT COUNT 1 TEST DURATION gt CONTINU ENABLE JDISABLER OR Figure 55 Measurements Setup Screen Configure the following EVENTS RECORD Options ENABLE F1 DISABLE F2 e ENABLE default setting The events screen will be displayed or stored printed in the BERT measurements screen as well as on the IP features IP throughput results e DISABLE The events screen will not be displayed or stored printed in the BERT measurements screen or on the IP fea tures IP throughput results ERROR INJECTION Options BIT F1 CRC F2 BIT RAT MORE F1 CRC RAT MORE F2 Select the type of error to inject during a BER test when ERR INJ is pressed Note CRC error injection refers to FCS error inje
46. ction COUNT RATE Options 1 999 Select the number of errors to inject during a BER test when ERR INJ is pressed e Use the SHIFT and numeric keys to enter a number SSMOD 28 81 TEST DURATION Options CONTINU F1 TIMED F4 Select continuous or timed testing If TIMED is selected you can set the test duration from 000 01 through 999 59 The three digits to the left of the semicolon are hours to the right are minutes e To set press SHIFT and use the numeric keys Use the lt F2 and gt F3 keys to move the insertion point while the SHIFT key is active 82 Ethernet Module 2 7 View Print Results You may store up to 20 different results to view or print at a later time To store results use the procedure in Section 2 7 1 Note This VIEW PRINT RESULTS menu is different from the VIEW PRINT RESULTS menu found in ADVANCED FEATURES gt RFC2544 for more information see Section 2 5 5 12 03 43 STORED RESULTS TEST O1 TEST 01 PRINT JUN LOCK tore _ Figure 56 Stored Results Screen The following F keys are available EDIT F1 Displays a character entry screen shown in Figure 57 which allows naming or renaming a stored test see Sections 2 7 1 and 2 7 6 VIEW F1 or F2 Allows viewing of a selected file see Section 2 7 2 CLEAR F2 or F3 Allows deleting an unlocked file see Section 2 7 4 PRINT F3 or more F1 Allows printing of a selected file see Section 2 7 3 UN LOCK F4 o
47. d specifies the device for which the frame is intended A destination address of all 1 bits FF FF FF FF FF FF refers to all stations on the LAN and is called a broad cast address The source address field specifies the station from which the frame originated On a network the MAC Media Access Control address or Ethernet address is the hardware address of a network device It is uniquely assigned by the IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The first three bytes contain a manufacture code the last three bytes contain a unique station ID Manufacturer IDs are globally assigned administered by the IEEE The MAC address is a data link layer address not to be confused with the network layer address protocol address e g IP address Type Length If the value of this 2 byte field is less than or equal to 1500 then the Length Type field indicates the number of bytes in the subsequent MAC Data field If the value of this 96 Ethernet Module field is greater than or equal to 1536 then the Length Type field indicates the nature of the MAC client protocol protocol type e g IP ARP RARP etc Data This 46 1500 byte field contains the data transferred from the source station to the destination station or stations CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check This 4 byte error checking field checks the integrity of the bits in the frame to make sure that the frame has arrived intact The 4 octet cyclic redundancy check value
48. ddresses will be incremented e DECR Use this to automatically generate traffic flows with IP addresses decrementing by one starting from the START IP address Enter the start IP address SRC andthe start IP address DST The remaining IP addresses will be decremented IP SRC source and IP DST destination Options COPY F1 lt F2 gt F3 PASTE F4 To manually enter an IP SRC or IP DST press SHIFT and use the numeric keys Use the lt gt keys to navigate the line when the SHIFT key is active You may also copy a line and paste it into another line When done press SAVE F4 to validate the settings and return to the BERT CONFIGURATION Layer 3 screen The rest of the Layer 3 configuration screen has been previously described in Layer 1 Configuration Screen and Layer 2 Configu ration Screen When finished with the configuration press ENTER to start testing The STATUS screen shown in Figure 19 is displayed Alternatively press ESC after configuration for QUICK TEST see Section 2 3 3 34 Ethernet Module 2 3 2 Measurements There can be up to seven screens in BERT THROUGHPUT MEA SUREMENTS They are shown in Figures 19 through 25 To display the screens use the keypad up down cursor keys the scroll bar at the right of the screen indicates the screen Each screen displays the following e Time of day e P1 Port 1 LINK UP or LINK DOWN LINKUPindicates thatthe link detection or auto negotiation process
49. e Upon completion of the auto negotiation information exchange the arbitration process determines the highest common mode and enables the appropriate functions Link Link Partner _ Link Partner ASYM Local Resolution Resolution PAUSE Disable PAUSE Disable PAUSE Transmit and Receive Transmit and Receive Disable PAUSE Disable PAUSE Transmit and Receive Transmit and Receive Disable PAUSE Disable PAUSE Transmit and Receive Transmit and Receive Enable PAUSE Transmit Enable PAUSE Receive Disable PAUSE Receive Disable PAUSE Transmit Disable PAUSE Disable PAUSE Transmit and Receive Transmit and Receive DIS Enable PAUSE Enable PAUSE Transmit and Receive Transmit and Receive EN DIS Disable PAUSE Disable PAUSE Transmit and Receive Transmit and Receive EN EN DIS EN Enable PAUSE Receive Enable PAUSE Transmit Disable PAUSE Transmit Disable PAUSE Receive EN EN EN Enable PAUSE Enable PAUSE Transmit and Receive Transmit and Receive Table 3 Pause Priority Resolution SSMOD 28 15 2 2 Loopback This function enables the test set to automatically loopback in coming traffic when it is in Point to Point mode It is particularly useful when running a Roundtrip Delay measuring as described in Section 2 5 2 BER testing as described in Section 2 3 Bandwidth Sweep testing as described in Section 2 5 4 RFC2544 testing as described in Section 2 5 5 Note After selecting this function the test set will load it s Loop back so
50. e polarity Test Set 1 Test Set 2 Figure 59 Layer 2 BER Testing Setup 2 Turn on both test sets Each test set automatically negotiates with the Link partner device to bring the link up Refer to the top line of each screen for information on the status of the P1 port or to the LED on each module 3 From the ETHERNET main menu select CONFIGURATION and configure each test set as follows 88 Ethernet Module OPERATION P TO P START UP QUICK MENU or CONFIG e For one button testing select QUICK After test set boot up the BER test will start and the results screen will be displayed e For expert use select CONFIG the test set will boot up on the BER test configuration screen e For other applications select MENU the test set will boot up on the module main menu screen AUTO NEGO ENABLE recommended setting PAUSE ENABLE recommended setting ASYM PAUSE ENABLE recommended setting 4 Press ESC and fromthe ETHERNET main menu select BERT THROUGHPUT gt BERT CONFIGURATION and configure the BER test for each test set as follows TEST LAYER 2 OF MAC ADDRS Select the number of MAC addresses to be used for the test up to 64 and press EDIT F1 to enter the MAC address values MAC addresses should follow this rule e MAC address source of test set 1 equals the MAC address destination of test set 2 e MAC address source of test set 2 equals the MAC address destination of test set 1 OF VLAN Ent
51. ed N A in full duplex mode SSMOD 28 37 LT COL RATE Average late collision rate since the start of the test reported N A in full duplex mode Note Late collisions are collisions occurring after transmission of packets of 64 bytes Late collisions usually result from a network whose physical extent exceeds the maximum round trip delay requirement PATL Count of pattern loss occurrences since the start of the test PATLS Count of pattern loss seconds since the start of the test LOS Count of loss of signal occurrences since the start of the test LOSS Count of loss of signal seconds since the start of the test Press the keypad down cursor key to display the next result screen shown in Figure 21 10 50 10 gt P1 100BT F DPLX lt gt ET 000 01 15 ST 10 48 55 RT CONTINU oos 0 stop EX OFF BFL CTRL Figure 21 BERT Results Alarm Screen This screen reports the following under the COUNTER banner OOS Out Of Service event counter An OOS event occurs when the device cannot send or receive data This happens when the link is down It also reports the following under the DURATION banner OOSS Out Of Service Seconds counts the total number of milliseconds of OOS since the start of the test The minimum maximum and average OOSS are also reported Press the keypad down cursor key to display the next result screen shown in Figure 22 38 Ethernet Module 10 50 10 gt P1 100BT F DPLX lt gt ET 000
52. ee Section 2 3 3 28 Ethernet Module Layer 2 Configuration Screen This configuration screen is similar to the BERT CONFIGURATION screen Layer 1 Configuration Referring to Figure 8 Layer 2 Con figuration screen you will notice that there are two additional items to configure They are OF MAC ADDRS and OF VLAN OF MAC ADDRS Options 1 to 64 default is 1 The MAC address is the hardware address that uniquely identi fies the source and destination of the Ethernet frame OF MAC ADDRS selects the number of MAC address source and desti nation to be used for the test Each MAC address source and destination pair defines traffic flow The module can generate up to 64 traffic flows e Use the SHIFT and numeric keys to enter a number Pressing EDIT F1 displays the MAC address editing screen shown in Figure 15 The number of lines in this editing screen will vary according to the number of MAC addresses 1 to 64 entered If more than five MAC ADDRS are entered a scroll bar is displayed as shown in Figure 15 Use the keypad up down cursor keys to scroll 11 50 45 gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt MAC ADDRESS MODE WANIUAVE MAC ADDRS 8 MAC SRC 1 00 00 00 00 00 00 MAC DST 1 00 00 00 00 00 00 MAC SRC 2 00 00 00 00 00 00 MAC 2 00 00 00 00 00 00 MAC 00 00 00 00 00 00 MAC 00 00 00 00 00 00 MAC 00 00 00 00 00 00 MAC 00 00 00 00 00 00 MAC 00 00 00 00 00 00 MAC 00 00 00 00 00 00 Figure 15 MAC Address Editing Sc
53. ength is selected YES the RFC2544 test sequence will be executed for this frame length If a frame length is not selected NO the RFC2544 test sequence will skip this frame length When done press NEXT F4 72 Ethernet Module 2 5 5 3 Select Test Sequence 12 03 43 gt P1 100BT F DPLX REC2544 TEST SEQUENCE THROUGHPUT MEASUREMENTHYES LATENCY MEASUREMENT gt MN FRAME LOSS RATE YES BURSTABILITY YES USER THRESHOLD YES Figure 47 RFC2544 Test Sequence Selection Screen In this screen select a test sequence and choose whether or not to run it by pressing YES F2 or NO F3 or press EDIT F4 to configure the selected test The first measurement is THROUGHPUT MEASUREMENT This measurement is designed to determine the maximum frame rate that does not have any lost frames Press EDIT F4 to adjust the test parameters shown in the following figure 12 03 43 gt P1 LOOBT F DPLX lt gt lt THROUGHPUT TEST CONFIGURATION START BANDWIDTH 100 0 RESOLUTION 71 0 DURATION 10 s Figure 48 Throughput Test Configuration Screen START BANDWIDTH Options 1 0 through 100 Indicates the starting point for the binary search algorithm SSMOD 28 73 RESOLUTION Options 1 00 or 0 1 Indicates the resolution of the Throughput Bandwidth in the binary search algorithm DURATION Options 1 to 999 seconds Indicates the duration of each step of the binary search algo rithm When finished press NEXT F4 to
54. ent PINGs to the test set PAGE Indicates the currently displayed page number TIME This is the timestamp of the first PING received from the associated IP address PING FROM This is the IP address that sent the PING TOTAL Indicates total number of PINGs received from the as sociated IP address SSMOD 28 59 2 5 1 5 Throughput Test Setup The IP Throughput test allows running a Layer 3 BERT Use it when the route is through a gateway and the source and destination IP addresses are not located in the same subnet This menu contains e TEST CONFIGURATION e TEST RESULTS Notes e Makesurethat you have pressed CONNECT F4 inthe IP CON NECTION STATUS screen and that IP UP is displayed e The test set will not respond to ARP requests or PINGs when it is in IP THROUGHPUT TEST For this reason we recommend that you first PING your intended destination IP address as explained in Section 2 5 1 2 before proceeding with this test 2 5 1 5 1 Test Configuration 12 03 43 gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt CP UPH IP THROUGHPUT TEST CONFIGURATION TRAFFIC TYPE IP TEST PATTERN FRAME LENGTH 64 BANDWIDTH 98 99 SEQUENCE gt ENABLE DESTINATION IP O O 0 0 SELECT A NORMAL J INVERT Figure 38 IP Throughput Test Configuration Screen Configure the following items shown in Figure 38 TRAFFIC TYPE Options Fixed at IP Layer 3 TEST PATTERN Options 2e31 2e23 2e20 2e15 2E11 2e9 1111 1010 0000
55. er a number only if VLAN tagging is required on your network otherwise keep this value at zero TEST PATTERN Select the test pattern for the BER test FRAME LENGTH Select the appropriate frame length TRAFFIC SHAPING Select the type of traffic shaping and press EDIT F4 to select the peculiar parameters of the traffic shaping Press SAVE F4 when done SEQUENCE As required Note Refer to Section 2 3 1 for details on these settings 5 Press ESC and from the BERT THROUGHPUT menu select MEASUREMENTS or QUICK TEST Press ENTER to start the BERT Note Refer to Sections 2 3 2 and 2 3 3 for interpretation of the results 6 Instead of configuring each test set individually you may configure test set 1 for loopback mode and configure test set 2 for the BERT using steps 4 and 5 For loopback mode configuration refer to Section 3 4 SSMOD 28 89 3 3 IP Throughput Layer 3 BERT Indirect Routing In a Layer 3 environment as shown in Figure 60 where the test sets are located in different networks indirect routing through a gateway must be used In this case you will run an IP Throughput test This configuration is referred to as indirect routing because test set 1 cannot transmit traffic directly to test set 2 traffic in this case is being routed by the gateway s 1 Connect the P1 port to the circuit as shown in Figure 60 with a straight or crossover cable The module will automatically adjust the polarity Network Test Se
56. es have been successfully completed LINK DOWN indicates that the link detection or auto nego tiation processes were not successfully completed In this case the test set is not ready to transmit and receive data e ET Elapsed Time of the test ST Start Time of the test e RT Remaining Time of the test or CONTINU for continuous Each screen has common F keys STOP F1 Press to manually stop the test If pressed the follow ing F keys appear START F1 Restarts the test and resets ET and RT STORE F2 Allows storing of all measurement screens Refer to Section 2 7 for further information PRINT F3 Allows printing of all measurement screens to the serial port of the test set Refer to Section 2 7 and your test set s user manual for further information TX ON TX OFF F3 Press to start the transmission of test frames as configured in the BERT CONFIGURATION screens see Sec tion 2 3 1 press again to stop transmitting FL CTRL F4 Sends a flow control pause frame for a duration of 65535 x 5 12 ms for fast Ethernet 100BaseT or 65535 x 51 2 ms for Ethernet 10BaseT only in full duplex mode Note that PAUSE is only available if auto negotiation is enabled refer to Section 2 1 and if the link partner indicates capability to stop transmitting upon receiving a pause flow control frame From the BERT THROUGHPUT menu select MEASUREMENTS and the test begins with the first screen shown in Figure 19 SSMOD 28 35 10 50
57. es that can be sent at 100 bandwidth with minimum inter frame gap before a frame is lost To adjust the parameters for this test you must press NEXT F4 in the Latency Test Configuration screen shown in Figure 50 The parameters are shown in the following figure Note This test will be available in a later software release 12 03 43 gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt BURSTABILITY START LENGTH 9 s RESOLUTION 0001 00 ms ITERATION 10 Figure 51 Burstability Test Configuration Screen START LENGTH Options s F1 1 to 60 seconds ms F2 1 00 to 999 99 milli seconds Enter the length of the first burst of frames in seconds or milli seconds RESOLUTION Options 1s to 0 01ms After the initial test if at least one frame is lost the test will start again with a binary search algorithm until the burst length is found with the resolution specified with this setting 76 Ethernet Module ITERATION Options 1 to 999 Define the number of times that each step is repeated When finished press NEXT F4 to adjust the next measurement or press ESC to select the next measurement The next measurement configuration shown in Figure 47 is USER THRESHOLD For each frame length you can adjust the Throughput threshold and the Latency threshold Use the keypad cursor keys to select the field to edit Throughput threshold can be adjusted between 1 and 100 If the result of the throughput test is below the throughput thresh
58. et Module The standard Ethernet module provides the necessary tools to efficiently install maintain and troubleshoot Ethernet 10 100BaseT services In addition to the above testing capabilities an FX optioned module allows you to efficiently install maintain and trouble shoot 100BaseFX services 1 1 Module Panel Link Status Activity Indicators Link Speed Indicators OOO000 Link Status Activity Indicators Link Speed Indicators 100P1L A _100P2 L A Receive Transmit SSMTT 28 with SSMTT 28 FX Option Figure 1 SSMTT 28 Ethernet Connector Panels The Ethernet module has a standard version and an optional version as shown in Figure 1 The standard version has two ports P1 This port is used for Point to Point applications As indicated in Figure 1 it has transmit and receive capabilities The two LEDs above this port are associated with this port P2 This port is for MONITOR mode only As indicated in Figure 1 it has transmit and receive capabilities The two LEDs above this port are associated with this port SSMOD 28 5 LEDs e Link Speed Indicator 100 Ifthe link is set at 1O0BaseT speed then the LED is yellow If the link is set at 10BaseT speed then the LED is off e Link Status Activity Indicator L A This represents the link status and activity on the line It is green if the link is up at 10BaseT or 100BaseT speeds It blinks green as traffic is received on the port It is off if
59. f the test is configured for Layer 1 BROADCAST Number of broadcast frames received A broad cast frame is a frame that is intended for all of the devices on the network the destination MAC address is set to FF FF FF FF FF FF This displays N A if the test is configured for Layer 1 FLOW CONTROL Number of pause flow control frames received SSMOD 28 39 Press the keypad down cursor key to display the next result screen shown in Figure 23 10 50 10 gt P1 100BT F DPLX lt gt ET 000 01 15 ST 10 48 55 RT CONTINU FRAME STATISTICS FRAMES RX 476024 UNICAST RX 478586 NON TEST FR RX 0 LOST FRAMES 145 LOST FPS gt 0 LOST FRAMES lt 1 OUT OF SEQ FRAMES 0 OUT OF SEQ FPS 0 OUT OF SEQ FRAMES 0 stop RX OFF FL CTRL Figure 23 BERT Results Frame Screen 2 The second FRAME STATISTICS screen reports the following FRAMES Rx Total number of frames received since beginning of the test UNICAST RX Total number of unicast frames received since beginning of the test A unicast frame is a frame destined to a single device This is the opposite of a broadcast frame This displays N A if the test is configured for Layer 1 NON TEST FR RX Number of non test frames received indi cates the number of unicast frames received whose source and destination MAC addresses don t match the test settings see Section 2 3 1 MAC ADDRS LOST FRAMES Number of Lost Frames in the incoming traf fic Thi
60. fer to Section 3to determine the test adapted to your network As seen in Figure 8 the configuration screen presented depends on the layer to be tested SSMOD 28 21 e LAYER 1 If this is selected the BERT will be performed at the Layer 1 physical layer of the OSI reference model The test frame conforms to the format shown in Figure 9 Test CRC Pattern 4 bytes E J m _ 64 to 12 000 bytes Figure 9 Layer 1 Frame e LAYER 2 If this is selected the BERT will be performed at the Layer 2 data link of the OSI reference model The test frame conforms to the format shown in Figure 10 MAC MAC Optional Destination Source VLAN _ Type Address Address Tag Length Test CRC 6 bytes 6 bytes 4bytes 2bytes Pattern 4 bytes C ee N E T 64 to 12 000 bytes _ Figure 10 Layer 2 Frame e LAYER 3 Ifthis is selected the BERT will be performed at the Layer 3 network layer of the OSI reference model The test frame conforms to the format shown in Figure 11 MAC MAC Optional Destination Source VLAN Type IP Address Address Tag LengthHEADER Test CRC 6 bytes 6bytes 4 bytes 2 bytes 20 bytes Pattern 4 bytes m _ _ 64 to 12 000 bytes _ Figure 11 Layer 3 Frame Note The Layer 3 BERT can only be performed if the local and remote units IP addresses are located in the same subnet If indirect routing through a
61. frames This is displayed as N A if the test set is configured for Layer 1 MULTICAST This is the percentage of received multicast traffic to the total number of received frames This is displayed as N A if the test set is configured for Layer 1 FLOW CTRL This is the percentage of received flow control traffic to the total number of received frames UNICAST This is the percentage of received unicast traffic to the total number of received frames This is displayed as N A if the test set is configured for Layer 1 Press the keypad down cursor key to display the next result screen shown in Figure 25 if enabled in MEASUREMENTS SETUP see Section 2 6 SSMOD 28 41 10 50 gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt ST 10 48 55 aK 2004 06 25 10 48 10 49 10 50 55 10 10 49 10 50 10 50 45 00 01 02 L1 L1 L1 L1 lt ET 000 01 15 RT CONTINU TEST STARTED CRC ERROR BIT ERROR BIT ERROR SIGNAL LOSS CRC ERROR Figure 25 BERT Results Events Screen This screen reports the following Test Date Test Start Time Test End Time Any of the following events with an event time SIGNAL LOSS END SIGNAL LOSS PAT LOSS END OF PAT LOSS BIT ERROR CRC ERROR FLOW CONTROL COLLISION XS COLLISION LATE COLLISION If there is more than one page of events NEXT PG F2 anda page indicator appear Press F2 to scroll through the available pages Use the page indicator to tell you what page
62. ftware During this process the Ethernet link will be closed It will reopen at the end of the download This feature is available for both the 10 100BaseT and 100BaseFX ports The traffic loopback feature provides a manual mode or a control ler responder mode In manual mode the test set will start looping incoming traffic as soon as MANUAL F1 is pressed Configured as a controller the test set will be responsible for sending loop up and loop down commands to a remote test set configured as a responder Configured as a responder the test set will scan incoming traffic for a loop up command As soon as loop up command is received the test set will switch to loopback mode and it will loop back all incoming traffic on PORT 1 The incoming traffic will be looped as follows e f Layer 1 loop up code is received the test set will retransmit the incoming frames without modifying them e If Layer 2 loop up code is received the test set will retransmit the incoming frames and swap the source and destination MAC address fields e If Layer 3 loop up code is received the test set will retransmit the incoming frames and swap the source and destination MAC and IP address fields The responder will remain in loopback mode until it receives a loop down frame Notes e There is no standard looping code for Ethernet the test set uses Sunrise proprietary loop up and loop down frames e Layer 2 and Layer 3 loopback mechanism will loop
63. gateway is required in case local and remote units IP addresses are located in different subnets use the IP Throughput test refer to Section 2 5 1 5 22 Ethernet Module Layer 1 Configuration Screen TEST PATTERN Options SELECT F1 NORMAL F3 INVERT F4 e SELECT Displays alist of standard test patterns for a descrip tion of the patterns see below They are 2e31 2e23 2e20 2e15 2e11 2e9 1111 1010 0000 USER CJPAT CRPAT and CSPAT To selecta pattern use the keypad cursor keys to navigate to the desired pattern and press ENTER The selected pattern is then displayed on the TEST PATTERN line shown in Figure 8 Layer 1 Configuration Screen For USER see below e NORMAL Transmits the selected test pattern as is e INVERT Transmits the selected test pattern inverted This is indicated by INV to the right of the selected test pattern on the TEST PATTERN line This only works with the following patterns 2e31 2e23 2e20 and 2e15 The following describes the available test patterns 2e31 Industry standard 2 1 pseudo random bit sequence This signal is formed from a 31 stage shift register and is not zero constrained This pattern contains up to 30 zeros in a row 2e23 Industry standard 273 1 pseudo random bit sequence This signal is formed from a 23 stage shift register and is not zero constrained This pattern contains up to 22 zeros in a row 2e20 Industry standard 279 1 pseudo random bit sequence This
64. he desired file with the keypad up down cursor keys e Press UN LOCK more F2 if the file is locked as indicated by the lock icon as in Figure 56 3 Press EDIT F1 and a character screen like the one shown in Figure 57 is displayed 4 Follow the procedure in Section 2 7 1 from step 4 SSMOD 28 85 3 1 Layer 1 Bit Error Rate Test BERT Ina Layer 1 environment as illustrated in Figure 58 you can run a Layer 1 BERT between two test sets Use this procedure 1 Connect the P1 port to the circuit as shown in Figure 58 with a straight or crossover cable The module will automatically adjust the polarity Test Set 1 P1 Per Test Set 2 Figure 58 Layer 1 BER Testing Setup 2 Turnon the test set The module automatically negotiates with the Link partner device to bring the link up Refer to the top line of the screen for information on the status of the P1 port or to the LED on the module 3 From the ETHERNET main menu select CONFIGURATION and configure as follows 86 Ethernet Module OPERATION P TO P START UP QUICK MENU or CONFIG e For one button testing select QUICK After test set boot up the BER test will start and the results screen will be displayed e For expert use select CONFIG the test set will boot up on the BER test configuration screen e For other applications select MENU the test set will boot up on the module main menu screen AUTO NEGO ENABLE recommended setting PAUSE ENABLE
65. he same time MONITOR mode supports F DPLX only SSMOD 28 13 e RESTART Press to restart the negotiation process with the link partner Note It is recommended that you enable auto negotiation on both link partners Speed determination issues may result in connectivity issues see Table 2 Configuration Configuration Resulting Resulting Link Local Device Link Partner Local Device Partner Inter Comments Interface Mode Interface Mode Interface Mode face Mode F The module dis AUTO NEGO AUTO NEGO Maximum com Maximum com Says 100BaseT mon capacity mon capacity full duplex 100 Mbps 100 Mbps 100 Mbps Duplex full duplex AUTO NEGO full duplex half duplex mismatch 100 Mbps 100 Mbps 100 Mbps Duplex pao NEGO full duplex half duplex full duplex mismatch 100 Mbps 100 Mbps 100 Mbps 100 Mbps Correct manual full duplex full duplex full duplex full duplex configuration Link is estab lished but link partner does not see any 00 Mbps AUTO NEGO 100 Mbps 100 Mbps auto negotiation alf duplex half duplex half duplex a information from local device and defaults to half duplex Neither side will establish link 10 Mbps 100 Mbps No link Nolink due to speed mismatch Link is estab lished but link partner will not see any auto he Mbps AUTO NEGO 10 Mbps 10 Mbps negotiation alf duplex half duplex half duplex format and will default to 10 Mbps half duplex 10 Mbps 7 10 Mbps 10 Mbps Duplex f
66. ision Detect 95 Frame Rate 97 Multiple Access 95 F Figures 01 SSMTT 28 Ethernet Connector Panels 5 02 Test Set LED Panels 8 03 Standard Ethernet Main Menu Screens 9 04 FX Optioned Ethernet Main Menu Screen 10 05 Menu Tree 11 06 Configuration Screens 12 07 Loopback Configuration Screens 17 08 BERT Configuration Screens 21 09 Layer 1 Frame 22 10 Layer 2 Frame 22 102 Ethernet Module Figures continued Layer 3 Frame 22 Constant Traffic Shaping Screen 25 Ramp Traffic Shaping Screen 26 Burst Traffic Shaping Screen 27 MAC Address Editing Screen 29 VLAN Editing Screen 31 VLAN Tag 31 IP Address Editing Screen 33 BERT Results Status Screen 36 BERT Results Summary Screen 37 BERT Results Alarm Screen 38 BERT Results Frame Screen 39 BERT Results Frame Screen 2 40 BERT Results Bandwidth Statistics Screen 41 BERT Results Events Screen 42 Quick Test Results Screen 43 Measurement Monitoring Status Screen 45 Measurement Monitoring Statistics Screen 46 Measurement Monitoring Events Screen 47 IP Connection Status Screens 49 ARP IP Connection Status Screen 51 ARP IP Status Details Screen 52 DHCP IP Connection Status Summary Screen 53 DHCP IP Status Detail Screen 54 PING Test Screen 55 Trace Results Screen 57 Echo Response Screen 59 IP Throughput Test Configuration Screen 60 Roundtrip Delay Configuration Screens 62 Roundtrip Delay Results Screen 64 Cable Test Screen 65
67. l dynami cally be assigned from the network LOCAL IP not in DHCP This specifies the IP address of the circuit to be tested GATEWAY not in DHCP This specifies the gateway address A gateway is a device that connects dissimilar networks and passes information between them In TCP IP the default gateway address is the address where the Internet Protocol sends packets destined for remote networks unless a different route is configured If a gateway is not used in your network press NONE F1 SUBNET not in DHCP This specifies the subnet mask DNS SERVER not in DHCP This specifies the Domain Name System Servers address VLAN Options ENABLE F1 DISABLE F2 Selects if the loop up and down commands need to carry a VLAN tag This is displayed only if LAYER 2 or LAYER 3 is selected If enabled enter the P Priority and VID VLAN ID parameters using SHIFT and the numeric keypad For further information on P and VID refer to Section 2 3 1 OF VLAN 50 Ethernet Module 2 5 1 1 1 IP Status Once the IP CONNECTION STATUS screen is configured press CONNECT F4 The cursor disappears in the parameter fields and an IP UP indicator will appear near the top of the screen if the connection is successful If unsuccessful an IP DOWN indicator will appear Refer to the following two sections Note To change parameters press DISC F4 and the cursor will reappear 2 5 1 1 2 Static IP Status 12 03 43 g
68. lications IP Throughput Layer 3 BERT Indirect Routing 90 Layer 1 Bit Error Rate Test BERT 86 Layer 2 Bit Error Rate Test BERT 88 Loopback Mode 92 Monitor Mode 94 ARP IP Connection Status Screen 51 ARP IP Status Details Screen 52 B Bandwidth Sweep Configuration Screens BANDWIDTH START 67 BANDWIDTH STOP 68 FORMAT LAYER 1 2 and 3 68 FRAME LENGTH 67 IP DST 68 IP SRC 68 LOSS FRAME DETECTION 68 MAC DST 68 MAC SRC 68 Options 1 to 99 default is 1 68 PAUSE FRAME DETECTION 68 STEP DURATION 68 VLAN 68 Bandwidth Sweep Screens FLOW CONTROL 70 LOST FRAMES 70 ET 69 FORMAT 69 FRAME LENGTH 69 RX RATE 69 RX UTIL 69 ST 69 STEP x x s 69 TEST BANDWIDTH FROM x TO x 69 TEST RUNNING TEST COMPLETED 69 TX RATE 69 TX UTIL 69 BERT Configuration Screens MAC ADDRS 30 OF IP ADDRS 33 OF MAC ADDRS 29 OF VLAN 30 SSMOD 28 99 BERT Configuration screens continued VLAN 31 BANDWIDTH 25 BANDWIDTH 1 27 BANDWIDTH 2 27 DURATION 1 27 DURATION 2 27 FRAME LENGTH 24 IP DST 34 IP SRC 34 LAYER 1 21 LAYER 2 21 LAYER 3 21 MAC DST 30 MAC SRC 30 MODE DECR 30 34 INCR 30 34 MANUAL 29 33 SEQUENCE 28 START BANDWIDTH 26 STEP 26 STEP DURATION 26 STOP BANDWIDTH 26 TEST PATTERN 23 TRAFFIC SHAPING BURST 24 CONST 24 RAMP 24 VLAN 1 2 3 and so on 32 BERT Results Alarm Screen OOS 38 OOSS 38 BERT Results Bandwidth Statistics Screen BROADCAST 41 FLOW C
69. llisions are the number of packets that have experienced 16 consecutive collisions or more LT COL Count of late collisions since the start of the test reported N A in full duplex mode LT COL RATE Average late collision rate since the start of the test reported N A in full duplex mode Note Late collisions are collisions occurring after transmission of packets of 64 bytes Late collisions usually result from a network whose physical extent exceeds the maximum round trip delay requirement TX RATE Transmitted data rate in Mbps or kbps TX RATE UTIL Transmitted percentage bandwidth utilization as set in the BERT CONFIGURATION screen RX RATE Received data rate in Mbps or kbps RX RATE UTIL Received percentage bandwidth utilization The screen contains three F keys PATTERN F2 Allows for the selection of a transmitted test pat tern The selected pattern is indicated at the PATT line under the time of day line at the top of the screen The available patterns are 2e31 2e23 2e20 2e15 2e11 2e9 1111 1010 and 0000 see Section 2 3 1 TEST PATTERN To select press PATTERN until the desired pattern is displayed STOP START F3 Allows for restarting of the preconfigured test PRINT F4 Allows printing of the Quick Test results screen Refer to Section 2 7 and your test set s user manual for further information 4400 Ethernet Module 2 4 Statistics Monitor Mode Statistics are only available when the
70. n you will notice that there is one additional item to configure It is OF IP ADDRS Options 1 to 64 The IP address is the network layer address that identifies the source and destination of the test frames This selects the number of the IP address source and destination pairs to use The OF IP ADDRS is fixed at the same value as the OF MAC ADDRS Each specific IP address pair will be associated with a specific MAC address pair e Use the SHIFT and numeric keys to enter a number Pressing EDIT F1 displays the IP ADDRESS editing screen shown in Figure 18 The number of lines in this editing screen will vary ac cording to the number of IP ADDRS 1 to 64 entered If more than five IP ADDRS are entered a scroll bar is displayed as shown in Figure 18 Use the keypad up down cursor keys to scroll 11 50 45 gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt IP ADDRESS MODE WANUN 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 bbnobesbbS Sooooooobe booobsooooe MANUAL INCR DECR SAVE Figure 18 IP Address Editing Screen This editing screen contains the following MODE Options MANUAL F1 INCR F2 DECR F3 e MANUAL Manually enter each IP address SRC source and IP DST destination pair SSMOD 28 33 e INCR Use this to automatically generate traffic flows with IP addresses incrementing by one starting from the START IP address Enter the start IP address SRC and the start IP ad dress DST The remaining IP a
71. n in Figure 28 10 50 10 gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt P2 100BT F DPLX STATISTICS K A SIGNAL AS 100 SIGNAL OFF 0 0 CRC ERRORS 0 0 10 10 10 Mbps 10 Mbps 14 880 14 880 8 924 754 8 926 754 Figure 28 Measurement Monitoring Statistics Screen This screen reports the following information for the P1 and P2 ports SIGNAL AS Count of signal available seconds since the start of the measurement SIGNAL OFF Count of signal off seconds since the start of the measurement CRC ERRORS Count of CRC errors since the start of the mea surement UTIL Percentage of bandwidth utilization RX Received rate in kbps or Mbps Fps Number of received frames per second RX Number of frames received since the start of the measure ment Press the keypad down cursor key to display the last screen shown in Figure 29 46 Ethernet Module 10 50 10 gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt P2 100BT F DPLX ST 10 48 55 2002 03 07 10 48 55 10 49 10 10 49 45 10 50 00 EVENTS TEST STARTED L1 SIGNAL LOSS L1 END SIGNAL LOSS L2 END SIGNAL LOSS PAGE UP PAGE DN sTOP A Figure 29 Measurement Monitoring Events Screen This screen reports the following information Test Date Test Start Time Test End Time Any of the following events with an event time SIGNAL LOSS END SIGNAL LOSS CRC ERROR If there is more than one page of events the PAGE UP F1 and PAGE DN F2 keys and a page indicator appear Use the F keys t
72. nd is in monitor mode e Red Currently detecting a CRC or Collision in half duplex only error e Blinking Red Previously detected an error but that error is no longer present Press HISTORY to clear PAT SYNC This LED is active whenever the test set is performing a BER test with a known test pattern e Green Pattern synchronization is achieved e Red Pattern synchronization has been lost e Blinking Red Previously detected pattern loss but this condi tion is no longer present Press HISTORY to clear BIT ERR This LED is active whenever the test set is performing a BER test with a known test pattern e Red Currently detecting bit errors e Blinking Red Previously detected bit errors but they are no longer present Press HISTORY to clear ALARM Active whenever the test set detects an alarm condition 8 Ethernet Module 1 3 Top Banner Screen Definitions 11 50 45 11 50 45 gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt gt P2 100BT F DPLX ETHERNET MAIN MENU ETHERNET MAIN MENU CONFIGURATION CONFIGURATION LOOPBACK STATISTICS BERT THROUGHPUT LOOPBACK ADVANCED FEATURES VIEW PRINT RESULTS MEASUREMENTS SETUP VIEW PRINT RESULTS PORT 10 100T PORT 10 100T OPERATION P TO P OPERATION MONITOR Figure 3 Standard Ethernet Main Menu Screens In P TO P Point to Point mode the banner at the top left of the left screen shown in Figure 3 indicates the status of the link on the P1 port It can be gt P1
73. net link is down e DHCP Discovery failed There is no response to the DHCP discovery message sent by the module If DHCP PASS is displayed the following parameters are dis played as in Figure 33 LOCAL IP IP address of the test set assigned by the DHCP server DHCP SERVER IP address of the DHCP server GATEWAY IP address of the gateway SUBNET MASK Netmask LEASE TIME Duration shown in HH MM SS of the IP address allocation SSMOD 28 53 Pressing DETAILS F4 displays the screen shown in Figure 34 This screen provides the protocol decode of the messages exchanged between the test set SUNSET and the DHCP SERVER 12 03 43 gt P1 100BT F DPLX lt gt IP UPN ST 12 00 00 ET 000 03 43 SUNSET DHCP SERVER DHCP disc gt lt DHCP offer DHCP req gt DHCP ack gt ARP reply PAGE UPJPAGE DNJSUMMARYY e Figure 34 DHCP IP Status Detail Screen The following items are displayed in Figure 34 ST Indicates when the CONNECT F key was pressed ET Elapsed time since the CONNECT F key was pressed PAGE Indicates page number of the displayed screen There are three F keys available PAGE UP F1 and PAGE DN F2 Displays any additional screens available SUMMARY Returns to the DHCP IP Connection Status screen 54 Ethernet Module 2 5 1 2 PING Test 12 03 43 gt P1 100BT F DPLX PPP UP lt gt IP UPN ST 12 00 00 ET 000 03 43 LOCAL IP 207 181 199 106 DESTINATION IP 207 181 199 178
74. o loopback traffic until a loop down frame is received or the ESC key is pressed on the test set e CONTROL If selected the test set will act as a controller Once the MODE is set the following items may be configured as needed SSMOD 28 17 COMMAND only in controller mode Options LOOP UP F1 LOOP DN F2 Select the type of frame to send after pressing START F4 e LOOP UP Press to send a loop up command to a remote responder test set e LOOP DN Press to send a loop down command to a remote responder test set FORMAT not in responder mode Options LAYER 1 F1 LAYER 2 F2 LAYER 3 F3 If MODE is set to MANUAL the FORMAT setting determines how the test set will loop back the incoming traffic e If Layer 1 is selected the test set will retransmit the incoming frames without modifying them e If Layer 2 is selected the test set will retransmit the incoming frames and swap the source and destination MAC address fields e If Layer 2 is selected the test set will retransmit the incom ing frames and swap the source and destination MAC and IP address fields If MODE is set to CONTROL the FORMAT setting determines the format of the loop up and loop down commands e lf Layer 1 is selected the test set can transmit a Layer 1 loop up or loop down command to a remote test set configured as a responder Upon receiving the Layer 1 loop up command the remote test set will retransmit the incoming frames without
75. o scroll through the available pages Use the page indicator to tell you what page you are looking at In Figure 29 the page indicator shows P 001 indicating page 1 SSMOD 28 47 2 5 Advanced Features This menu contains the following IP FEATURES ROUNDTRIP DELAY CABLE TEST BANDWIDTH SWEEP RFC2544 2 5 1 IP Features IP features provides advanced IP connectivity analysis expert PING testing with statistics trace route echo response and IP Throughput testing The menu contains the following selections IP CONNECTION STATUS PING TEST TRACE ROUTE ECHO RESPONSE THROUGHPUT TEST SETUP Note For the IP Features test the SSMTT 28 module uses it s default unique MAC address based on the serial number of the test set chassis 48 Ethernet Module 2 5 1 1 IP Connection Status After turning up the link select IP FEATURES gt IP CONNEC TION STATUS from the ETHERNET main menu This contains configuration items for the IP connection Enter the proper protocol used by the circuit as well as the necessary IP addresses Figure 30 shows the two types of IP screens gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt lt gt IP CONNECTION STATUS IP CONNECTION STATUS E IP TYPE ADHCP 000 000 000 000 VLAN DISABLED 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 DHCP DNS SERVER 0 0 VLAN DISABLED ARP es Static Configuration Screen DHCP Configuration Screen Figure 30 IP Connection Status Screens Common F keys
76. old then the test will fail if the result of the throughput test is above or equal to the throughput threshold then the test will pass Latency threshold can be adjusted between 99 s and 0 00001 ms If the result of the throughput test is below or equal to the latency threshold then the test will pass if the result of the throughput test is above the latency threshold then the test will fail The adjustment screen is shown in the following figure gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt USER THRESHOLD LENGTH THROUGHPUT LATENCY 00 10000 00 10000 00 10000 00 10000 00 L0000 00 10000 00 10000 Figure 52 User Threshold Adjustment Screen When finished press NEXT F4 to return to the RFC2544 Test Sequence Selection Screen shown in Figure 47 SSMOD 28 77 2 5 5 4 Run Test When ready to start testing press ESC to return to the RFC2544 menu screen and select RUNTEST press ENTER and testing begins with an on screen message RFC2544 TEST IN PROGRESS This measurement is performed only if there is a loop a loopback plug or another test set in loopback at the far end To configure the test set for loopback see Section 2 2 Prior to starting the measurement the test set will verify the loop at the far end If a loopback is not detected the test is aborted At any time during the test you may press ESC MENU or MOD ULE to stop the test A message is displayed asking if you would like to stop
77. on as they detect collisions and wait for a quasi random length of time back off before they start retransmitting Most Ethernet devices also support full duplex operation where data can be simultaneously transmitted and received In this case the link bandwidth is doubled because each device supports full rate simultaneous two way transmission IEEE 802 2 LLC IEEE 802 3 CSMA CD IEEE 802 3 Physical Layer IEEE 802 3 Ethernet Figure 63 Ethernet Overview SSMOD 28 95 4 1 1 Ethernet Frame Format lejsek S ee 1 Preamble SFD 8 bytes 2 Destination MAC address 6 bytes 3 Source MAC address 6 bytes 4 Type Length 2 bytes 5 Data 46 1500 bytes 6 CRC 4 bytes Figure 64 Ethernet Frame Format The following describes the items shown in Figure 64 Preamble Field SFD Start Frame Delimiter 8 bytes are used for synchronization Preamble field is a 7 octets field used to begin a frame transmission the SFD field is a 1 byte sequence that fol lows the preamble and indicates the start of a frame The next two fields Destination MAC Address and Source MAC Address share a similar definition The difference between the two is that the e Destination MAC Address is the Ethernet address of the des tination host e Source MAC Address is the Ethernet address of the source host They both contain 6 bytes and each frame contains two address fields the destination address field and the source address field The destination address fiel
78. or USER Use the procedure in Section 2 3 1 TEST PATTERN to make your selection 60 Ethernet Module FRAME LENGTH Options 64 to 1518 default is 64 bytes Enter a Frame Length Refer to Section 2 5 1 1 if you need help entering a number BANDWIDTH Options 0 to 100 in 0 01 steps Set the frame transmission speed Refer to Section 2 5 1 1 if you need help entering a percentage SEQUENCE Options ENABLE F1 DISABLE F2 default is DISABLE If enabled a sequence number will be inserted in the payload of each frame The sequence number will allow you to detect the number of lost frames This is a Sunrise proprietary feature and a frame loss count can only be detected when the BERT is running between two SSMTT 28 modules with SEQUENCE enabled on each side DESTINATION IP Enter the destination IP address Refer to Section 2 5 1 1 if you need help entering a number Note You may control the test duration in MEASUREMENTS SETUP When ready press ENTER and the STATUS screen is dis played 2 5 1 5 2 Test Results These screens can be accessed by the main menu or by pressing START in the configuration screen There are 6 screens of results They are STATUS SUMMARY ALARM FRAME BANDWIDTH and EVENTS For a description of each of these results screens please refer to Section 2 3 2 Note If at the start of testing the test set displays DESTINATION IP NOT RESPONDING Then the test set is indicating that the de
79. ount For Example If 10000 frames were sent but only 9800 were received the frame loss rate would be 10000 9800 x 100 10000 2 00 After calculating the frame loss at a given throughput rate the throughput is reduced by the specified step size no greater than 10 and repeated To adjust the parameters for this test you must press NEXT F4 in the Latency Test Configuration screen shown in Figure 49 The parameters are shown in the following figure Note This test will be available in a later software release 12 03 43 gt P1 100BT F DPLX lt gt lt FRAME LOSS RATE CONFIGURATION START BANDWIDTH 00 0 STEP SIZE 1 DURATION 10s Figure 50 Frame Loss Rate Configuration Screen START BANDWIDTH Options 1 0 through 100 Determine the starting point for the test STEP SIZE Options 1 to 20 default is 10 00 Determine the step for the next bandwidth to be tested After testing at a frame rate the test will reduce the frame rate by the specified step size Smaller step sizes will greatly increase the overall duration of the test while increasing the resolution SSMOD 28 75 DURATION Options 1 to 999 seconds Determine the step duration When finished press NEXT F4 to adjust the next measurement or press ESC to select the next measurement The next measurement shown in Figure 47 is BURSTABILITY The back to back frames or burstability is de signed to determine the maximum number of fram
80. r more F2 Allows locking and unlocking a file see Section 2 7 5 SSMOD 28 83 2 7 1 Saving aTest 1 From any screen with a STORE F key press it and refer to Figure 56 2 Use the keypad up down cursor keys to select an empty line 3 Press EDIT F1 to display a character selection screen like the one shown in Figure 57 12 03 43 STORED RESULTS FILENAME TEST W G K U e o y 6 NNOD h lt r W Figure 57 Character Selection Screen 4 Press INPUT F3 Note that the A character is highlighted and the INPUT F key has changed to STOP 5 Use the keypad cursor keys to select the desired character 6 Press ENTER to place the desired character in the label Continue this process until the FILENAME label is complete You may enter up to 15 characters If you make a mistake in the entry A Press STOP F3 B Move the FILENAME cursor to the incorrect character C Press DELETE F2 to delete the character or press IN SERT F1 to insert a character D Press INPUT F3 to select a character Press ENTER to insert the new character to the left of the cursor 7 Press SAVE F4 to escape the character entry screen and return to the STORED RESULTS list screen shown in Figure 56 84 Ethernet Module 2 7 2 Viewing a Stored Test 1 From the module main menu select VIEW PRINT RESULTS or press any STORE F key and refer to Figure 56 2 Select the desired file with the keypad up down cursor keys 3 Press VI
81. rd SA562 Optional 2 meter LCUPXC duplex single mode patch cord Table 1 Recommended Cables 100FX LEDs e L This represents the status of the line If the link is up then the LED is green If the link is down then the LED is off Note that when the link is up it indicates that the signal is detected and auto negotiation is complete e A This represents the activity on the line Itis green to indicate Tx and or Rx traffic It is off when there is no traffic SSMOD 28 7 1 2 Test Set LEDs Qvoouwe Ome Or Osora Ov 1SYNC Ov 2SYNC Orrame Ors Qaru O ERRORS O BPV CODE O PAT SYNC O BIT ERR SunSet MTT O POWER O BATTERY Qvooue Orne Owr Orm Or Oune Osiena Ov sync Q ir2 SYNC Orrane Orns Qarn Orrrors O rvcone CD rar SYNC Oro COresrono C arr err SS SunSet MTT SSMTT ACM EX SSMTT Basic Color Figure 2 Test Set LED Panels O POWER O BATTERY The following test set LEDs shown in Figure 2 are used MODULE SSMTT or xDSL SSxDSL e Green Test set is in module mode SIGNAL SSMTT or T1 E1 SIG SSxDSL and FRAME For the standard module this LED indicates the status of P1 e Green Link is up on P1 e Red Link is down on P1 For the FX optioned module this LED can also indicate the status of the 100FX e Green Link is up on 100FX e Red Link is down on 100FX ERRORS This LED is active whenever the test set is performing a BER test a
82. recommended setting ASYM PAUSE ENABLE recommended setting 4 Press ESC and fromthe ETHERNET main menu select BERT THROUGHPUT gt BERT CONFIGURATION and configure the BER test as follows TEST LAYER 1 TEST PATTERN Select the test pattern for the BER test FRAME LENGTH Select the appropriate frame length TRAFFIC SHAPING Select the type of traffic shaping and press EDIT F4 to select the peculiar parameters of the traffic shaping Press SAVE F4 when done SEQUENCE As required Note Refer to Section 2 3 1 for details on these settings 5 Press ESC and from the BERT THROUGHPUT menu select MEASUREMENTS or QUICK TEST Press ENTER to start the BERT Note Refer to Sections 2 3 2 and 2 3 3 for interpretation of the results 6 Instead of configuring each test set individually you may configure test set 1 for loopback mode and configure test set 2 for the BERT using steps 4 and 5 For loopback mode configuration refer to Section 3 4 SSMOD 28 87 3 2 Layer 2 Bit Error Rate Test BERT In a Layer 2 environment as shown in Figure 59 you can run a BERT between two test sets Layer 2 devices switches keep track of MAC address information in order to forward traffic to the appropriate port therefore each test set has to be configured with valid source and destination MAC address 1 Connect the P1 port to the circuit as shown in Figure 59 with a straight or crossover cable The module will automatically adjust th
83. reen This screen contains the following MODE Options MANUAL F1 INCR F2 DECR F3 e MANUAL Manually enter each MAC address SRC source and MAC DST destination pair e INCR Enter the start MAC address SRC and the start MAC ad SSMOD 28 29 dress DST The remaining MAC addresses will be incremented Use this to automatically generate traffic flows with MAC addresses incrementing by one starting from the START MAC address e DECR Enter the start MAC address SRC and the start MAC ad dress DST The remaining MAC addresses will be decremented Use this to automatically generate traffic flows with MAC addresses decrementing by one starting from the START MAC address MAC ADDRS Options 1 to 64 default is 1 You may also enter this parameter in this screen e Use the SHIFT and numeric keys to enter a number MAC SRC source and MAC DST destination Options DEFAULT F1 lt F2 gt F3 COPY more F1 PASTE more F2 e Press SHIFT and use the numeric keys Use the lt gt keys to navigate the line while the SHIFT is active If you want you may also copy an entire line and paste it into another line e DEFAULT Replaces the MAC address with the unique default MAC address of the test set based on the serial number of the chassis When done press SAVE F3 or F4 to validate the settings and return to the Layer 2 BERT CONFIGURATION screen The second new item in this screen is OF VLAN Options
84. reen is shown in Figure 36 and it is the same for all encapsulation types 12 03 43 gt P1 100BT F DPLX lt gt H lt ST 12 00 00 ET 000 03 43 LOCAL IP 38 168 47 121 DESTINATION IP 209 130 W06 142 Host Address 129 250 2 209 129 250 2 246 129 250 5 253 129 250 4 14 129 250 28 52 129 250 4 52 Figure 36 Trace Results Screen Press START F4 to run the trace after entering a destination IP address Press STOP F4 to stop the trace Pressing START restarts the trace and resets ET to zero Scroll through the results by using PAGE UP F1 and PAGE DN F2 PAGE indicates the page number of the currently displayed screen The following items are displayed ST Indicates when START was pressed ET Elapsed time since START was pressed LOCAL IP Displays the LOCAL IP entered in the CONFIGURA TION screen if static IP TYPE has been selected It displays the dynamically assigned address if DHCP has been selected in the CONFIGURATION screen If this address has not yet been as signed UNASSIGNED will be displayed DESTINATION IP Enter the Destination IP address before press ing START F3 Refer to Section 2 5 1 1 if you need help enter ing the address If you wish to use the gateway address press GATEWAY F1 Once the test is running this parameter can t be changed unless STOP F3 is pressed SSMOD 28 57 Hop Displays up to 32 router hops Type Describes the type of hop It can be the following types
85. s measurement is only available if the optional sequence number is enabled in the BERT configuration screen on the local and remote test sets LOST FPS Number of Lost Frames Per Second Note Lost frames can only be detected if at least 8 consecutive frames with a sequence number are received LOST FRAMES This is the Percentage of Lost Frames com pared to the total number of frames OUT OF SEQ FRAMES Number of frames that are received out of sequence This measurement is only available if the optional sequence number is enabled in the BERT configuration screen on the local and remote test sets 40 Ethernet Module OUT OF SEQ FPS Number of Out of Sequence Frames Per Second OUT OF SEQ FRAMES Percentage of out of sequence com pared to the number of received frames Press the keypad down cursor key to display the next result screen shown in Figure 24 10 50 10 gt P1 100BT F DPLX lt gt ET 000 01 15 ST 10 48 55 RT CONTINU BANDWIDTH STATISTICS TOTAL RATE 30 Mbps 30 Mbps Min 0 kbps 0 Max 100 Mbps 100 Avg 89 Mbps BROADCAST MULTICAST FLOW CTRL UNICAST stop Torr RFit CTRL Figure 24 BERT Results Bandwidth Statistics Screen This screen reports the received and transmitted rates for TOTAL RATE The current Minimum Maximum and Average bandwidth utilization since the beginning of the test BROADCAST This is the percentage of received broadcast traffic to the total number of received
86. seconds if INTERFACE is setto 100BaseT or 90 00 to 999 99 milliseconds if INTERFACE is set to 10BaseT BANDWIDTH 2 Options 0 to 100 default is 0 Refer to TRAFFIC SHAPING BURST for operation details DURATION 2 Options s F1 ms F2 default is 10 seconds Refer to TRAFFIC SHAPING BURST for operation details e s second Set the duration of the burst from 2 to 999 seconds e ms millisecond Set the duration of the burst from 9 00 to 999 99 milliseconds if INTERFACE is setto 100BaseT or 90 00 to 999 99 milliseconds if INTERFACE is set to 10BaseT Note If millisecond is selected BANDWIDTH 1 will be 100 and BANDWIDTH 2 will be 0 SSMOD 28 27 When done press SAVE F4 to return to the previous configura tion screen The following continues with Figure 8 Layer 1 Configuration SEQUENCE Options ENABLE F1 DISABLE F2 default is DISABLE If enabled a sequence number will be inserted in the payload of each frame The sequence number will allow you to detect the number of lost frames This is a Sunrise proprietary feature hence frame loss count and out of sequence frames can only be detected when the BERT is running between two SSMTT 28 modules with SEQUENCE enabled on each side or with one module with a loop at the far end When finished with the configuration press ENTER to start testing The STATUS screen shown in Figure 19 is displayed Alternatively press ESC after configuration for QUICK TEST s
87. signal is formed from a 20 stage shift register and is not zero constrained This pattern contains up to 19 zeros in a row 2e15 Industry standard 2 5 1 pseudo random bit sequence This signal is formed from a 15 stage shift register and is not zero constrained This pattern contains up to 14 zeros in a row 2e11 Industry standard 2 1 pseudo random bit sequence This signal is formed from a 11 stage shift register and is not zero constrained This pattern contains up to 10 zeros in a row 2e9 Industry standard 29 1 pseudo random bit sequence This signal is formed from a 9 stage shift register and is not zero con strained This pattern contains up to 8 zeros in a row 1111 Industry standard all 1s pattern 1010 Industry standard alternating ones and zeros pattern 0000 Industry standard all zeros pattern USER If selected enter the test pattern in hexadecimal format the length of the user defined 2 byte test pattern e With USER selected press SELECT F1 and the cursor will jump down to the pattern line Press SHIFT and use the key pad to enter a pattern Press SHIFT again to use the keypad cursor keys to correct any errors in the pattern Press ESC when done SSMOD 28 23 CJPAT Compliant Jitter Test Pattern is used for jitter measure ments It is intended to expose a receiver s CDR Clock and Data Recovery circuit to large instantaneous phase jumps The pattern alternates repeating low transition density patterns with
88. stination IP or Gateway did not respond to the ARP request SSMOD 28 61 2 5 2 Roundtrip Delay This measurement is performed only if there is a loop a loopback plug or another test set in loopback at the far end To configure a test set for loopback see Section 2 2 Prior to starting the measurement the test set will verify the loop at the far end If a loopback is not detected the test is aborted For the roundtrip delay measurement you can choose to send Layer 1 2 or 3 frames For further information on frame layers refer to Section 2 3 1 The frame rate is 1 per second When the frames are received back through the loop the test set will compare the time stamp with its local clock and display the roundtrip delay Figure 39 shows the three configuration screens 12 03 43 12 03 43 gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt P1 100BT F DPLX gt ROUNDTRIP DELAY ROUNDTRIP DELAY FRAME LENGHT 64 FRAME LENGHT 64 OF FRAMES 1 OF FRAMES 1 FORMAT EX FORMAT BG MAC SRC 00 DO DD 06 05 81 MAC DST 00 00 00 00 00 00 VLAN ENABLED P 0 VID 0 Layer 1 Configuration Screen Layer 2 Configuration Screen 12 03 43 gt P1 100BT F DPLX FRAME LENGHT 64 OF FRAMES 1 FORMAT MAG MAC SRC 00 DO DD 06 05 81 MAC DST 00 00 00 00 00 00 VLAN ENABLED P 0 VID 0 IP src 0 0 IP pst 0 0 0 0 0 Layer 3 Configuration Screen Figure 39 Roundtrip Delay Configuration Screens Note To enter numbers press SHIFT
89. t 1 Test Set 2 Figure 60 Layer 3 BER Testing Setup Indirect Routing 2 Turn on each test set Each test set automatically negotiates with the Link partner device to bring the link up Refer to the top line of each screen for information on the status of the P1 port or to the LED on each module 90 Ethernet Module 3 From the ETHERNET main menu select CONFIGURATION and configure each test set as follows OPERATION P TO P START UP QUICK MENU or CONFIG e For one button testing select QUICK After test set boot up the BER test will start and the results screen will be displayed e For expert use select CONFIG the test set will boot up on the BER test configuration screen e For other applications select MENU the test set will boot up on the module main menu screen AUTO NEGO ENABLE recommended setting PAUSE ENABLE recommended setting ASYTM PAUSE ENABLE recommended setting 4 Press ESC and from the ETHERNET main menu select AD VANCED FEATURES gt IP FEATURES gt IP CONNECTION STATUS and select either DHCP or STATIC as described in Section 2 5 1 1 When ready press CONNECT F4 5 When the connection is successful IP UP press ESC and select from the IP FEATURES menu PING TEST At the DES TINATION IP line enter the IP address of the remote test set Test Set 2 in order to verify end to end connectivity 6 If PING PASS is displayed press ESC and from the IP FEA TURES menu select THRO
90. t Module Loopback Configuration Screens continued MAC DST 19 MAC SRC 19 MODE CONTROL 17 MANUAL 17 RESPOND 17 VLAN 19 M Measurements Setup Screen COUNT RATE 81 ERROR INJECTION 81 EVENTS RECORD 81 TEST DURATION CONTINU 82 TIMED 82 Measurement Monitoring Events Screen 47 Measurement Monitoring Statistics Screen RX 46 CRC ERRORS 46 Fps 46 RX 46 SIGNAL AS 46 SIGNAL OFF 46 UTIL 46 Measurement Monitoring Status Screen ET 45 LINE 1 45 LINE 2 45 ST 45 Menu Tree 11 Module Panel 100FX 6 LEDs 6 100FX 7 P1 5 P2 5 P PING Test Screen PINGS 55 DESTINATION IP 55 ET 55 LOCAL IP 55 Missing 56 PING SEC 55 PING 56 SSMOD 28 105 PING Test Screen continued PING ARP FAIL 56 PING FAIL 56 PING IN PROGRESS 56 PING PASS 56 PING LEN 55 Recv d 56 Round Trip Crnt Avg and Max Min 56 Sent 56 ST 55 Unreach 56 Q Quick Test Results Screen BIT 43 BIT RATE 44 COL 44 COL RATE 44 CRC RATE 44 LOST FRM 44 LT COL 44 LT COL RATE 44 RX RATE 44 RX RATE UTIL 44 STATUS 43 TX RATE 44 TX RATE UTIL 44 XS COL 44 XS COL RATE 44 R RFC2544 Frame Format Screens IP DST 72 IP SRC 72 MAC DST 72 MAC SRC 72 TEST LAYER 1 2 and 3 71 VLAN 72 RFC2544 Frame Length Selection Screen 72 RFC2544 Test Sequence Selection Screen 73 Roundtrip Delay Configuration Screens OF FRAMES 63 FORMAT LAYER 1 2 and 3 63 FRAME LENGTH 63 IP DST 63
91. t P1 100BT F DPLX lt gt TP _ UP ITP_ CONNECT LON STATUS IP TYPE STATIC LOCAL IP 710 0 O0 2 GATEWAY 10 0 0 1 SUBNET 255 255 255 0 DNS SERVER 0 0 0 0 VLAN DISABLED ARP PASS DETAILSE A ooo A DISC D Figure 31 ARP IP Connection Status Screen After CONNECT F4 is pressed the test set will send an ARP Ad dress Resolution Protocol request to the gateway The status of the request is displayed on the ARP line It can be one of the following ARP in progress indicates that the connection is not yet com pleted ARP PASS indicates a successful connection the gateway has replied to the ARP request and IP UP is displayed ARP FAIL indicates that the connection was not successful the gateway has not responded to the ARP request and IP DOWN is displayed If this occurs one of the following error messages will be displayed e P1 LINK DOWN The Ethernet link is down e WRONG CONFIGURATION The reason could be wrong local or gateway IP addresses SSMOD 28 51 If ARP PASS is displayed the following parameters are displayed as in Figure 31 LOCAL IP IP address entered in the LOCAL IP field by the user before the CONNECT F key was pressed GATEWAY IP address of the gateway SUBNET IP address of the subnet mask DNS SERVER IP address of the DNS server Pressing DETAILS F4 displays the screen shown in Figure 32 This screen provides the protocol decode of
92. the link is down The optional version has an additional port and LEDs 100FX This port is used for Point to Point applications As indicated in Figure 1 it has transmit and receive capabilities The two LEDs to the right are associated with this port see 100FX LEDs This port uses two types of plug in optical transceivers e The SSMTT 28 FXS duplex type LC 1310 nm single mode transceiver Tx SSMTT 28 FXS Rx SUNRISE TELECOM 1310 nm Class 1 Laser Product e The SSMTT 28 FXM duplex type LC 1310 nm multimode transceiver SSMTT 28 FXM lt gt Rx SUNRISE TELECOM 1310 nm Class 1 Laser Product i CAUTION Use of non Sunrise Telecom transceivers will void the test set warranty To insert a transceiver 1 Align the transceiver label side with the bottom upside down of the test set 2 Insert the transceiver into the 100FX port There will be a click sound when the transceiver is properly seated 3 When ready for use remove the protective cap on the optical interface end of the transceiver 6 Ethernet Module To remove a transceiver 1 Install the protective cap on the optical interface end of the transceiver 2 Push in on the black plastic release button on the transceiver 3 While holding in on the release button grip the outer edge of the transceiver and pull it away from the module The recommended cables are shown in Table 1 SA561 Standard 2 meter LCUPC to SCUPC duplex multimode patch co
93. the messages ex changed between the test set SUNSET and the GATEWAY 12 03 43 gt P1 100BT F DPLX lt gt m lt ST 12 00 00 ET 000 03 43 GATEWAY gt ARP reply PAGE UP PAGE DNJSUMMARY JE Figure 32 ARP IP Status Details Screen The following items are displayed ST Indicates when the CONNECT F key was pressed ET Elapsed time since the CONNECT F key was pressed PAGE Indicates page number of the displayed screen There are three F keys available PAGE UP F1 and PAGE DN F2 Displays any additional screens available SUMMARY Returns to the ARP IP Connection Status screen 52 Ethernet Module 2 5 1 1 3 DHCP IP Status 12 03 43 gt P1 100BT F DPLX lt gt E lt ITP_ CONNECT LON STATUS IP TYPE DHCP VLAN DISABLED ARP PASS LOCAL IP 207 181 199 105 DHCP SERVER 207 181 199 100 GATEWAY 207 181 199 178 SUBNET MASK 255 255 255 000 LEASE TIME 00 60 00 DE TATL S COUN SC Figure 33 DHCP IP Connection Status Summary Screen Press CONNECT F4 and the test set will send a DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol discovery message The status of the message is displayed on the DHOP line It can be one of the following DHCP in progress Indicates that the connection is not yet completed DHCP PASS Indicates a successful connection DHCP FAIL Indicates that the connection was not successful one of the following error messages will be displayed e P1 LINK DOWN The Ether
94. ttern is detected when the BER is greater than or equal to 0 2 over a 1 second period e ERROR DET Bit or CRC errors are currently being detected or have been previously detected e NO RX DATA Test set is not receiving Ethernet frames Note Error conditions on the Status screen can be acknowl edged and cleared by pressing HISTORY The RESULTS area of the screen reports the following BIT Count of BIT errors since the start of the test SSMOD 28 43 BIT RATE Average bit error rate since the start of the test CRC Count of CRC errors since the beginning of the test CRC RATE Average CRC error rate since the start of the test LOST FRM Number of Lost Frames in the incoming traffic This measurement is only available if the optional sequence number is enabled in BERT CONFIGURATION local and remote Note Lost frames can only be detected if at least 8 consecutive frames with a sequence number are received COL Count of collisions since the start of the test reported N A in full duplex mode COL RATE Average collision rate since the start of the test re ported N A in full duplex mode Note Collisions are likely to happen if more than one device is transmitting simultaneously on an half duplex network XS COL Count of excess collisions since the start of the test reported N A in full duplex mode XS COL RATE Average excess collision rate since the start of the test reported N A in full duplex mode Note Excess co
95. ull duplex AVTO NEGO full duplex full duplex mismatch i 10 Mbps 10 Mbps 10 Mbps Duplex UND NEGO full duplex half duplex full duplex mismatch 10 Mbps 10 Mbps 10 Mbps 10 Mbps Correct manual full duplex full duplex full duplex full duplex configuration A duplex mismatch will result in performance issues intermittent con Note nectivity and possible loss of communication When troubleshooting local device issues verify that the local device and link partner are using a valid configuration Table 2 Ethernet Auto Negotiation 14 Ethernet Module The next two items are available only in Point to Point operation PAUSE Options ENABLE F1 DISABLE F2 RESTART F4 e ENABLE This indicates that the local device intends to stop upon reception of pause flow control packets e DISABLE If disabled this indicates thatthe local device does not intend to stop upon reception of pause flow control packets e RESTART Press to restart the auto negotiation process with the link partner Note PAUSE is not available if MODE is set to H DPLX ASYM PAUSE not available for 100BaseFX amp half duplex mode Options ENABLE F1 DISABLE F2 RESTART F4 e ENABLE This indicates independent enable disable of the pause flow control receive and transmit e DISABLE This indicates symmetric enable disable of the pause flow control receive and transmit e RESTART Press to restart the auto negotiation process with the link partner Not

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