Configuring A Termination Trigger - Nortel Versalar 15000 Troubleshooting Manual

Managing and Troubleshooting the Versalar Switch Router 15000
Example
To configure packet capture to copy both incoming and outgoing packets, enter:
capture-direction both

Configuring a Termination Trigger

By default, packet capture terminates only when you issue the command to
terminate it. You can specify that packet capture terminate when either of the
following events occurs:
• The packet capture file is full.
• A portion of an incoming or outgoing packet matches a hexadecimal number
or character string that you specify.
You can issue a command to terminate packet capture even if you configure it to
terminate on its own.
If you want packet capture to terminate itself and you configured packet capture to
copy incoming packets, enter the following command:
rx-trigger <value>
If you configured packet capture to copy outgoing packets, enter the following
command:
tx-trigger <value>
Enter both commands if you want to change the trigger settings for both incoming
and outgoing packets.
value
•
full
and the file is full, packet capture overwrites the oldest packets in the file.
Caution: If you configure packet capture to copy both incoming and outgoing
packets, it copies them to a single file. Therefore, if you set one of these
parameters (rx-trigger or tx-trigger) to full, you must set the other parameter to
full as well. Unless you set both parameters to full, packet capture may
overwrite the oldest packets, regardless of whether an interface received or
transmitted them.
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is one of the following:
-- Terminates when the packet capture file is full. If the setting is not full
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