Line Monitor - Cabletron Systems Netlink FRX8000 Installation And Setup Manual

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Line Monitor

The line monitor option displays the control data and information data of every
level 3 packet that passes through a port.
Press at the Status Display Menu and, when prompted, enter the desired LP and
[E]
port numbers. A message like the following will appear:
Display Selection is: mode: Hexadecimal
Selected Packets are: QData Call Clear Restart Reset Int Diag Unk only
Options are F,H,L,M,S,D,Q,C,R,T,A, and F3 to exit
Press F to start
The options act as follows:
Stops the display from scrolling, or restarts if stopped.
F
Toggles the data format of the displayed information between ASCII and
H
hexadecimal.
on an X.25 line, monitors a specific LCN; when prompted, enter the
L
LCN. If packets are currently being exchanged on that channel, the
display will begin scrolling them.
Monitors a different line; when prompted, enter the LP and port numbers.
M
Updates and re-displays the "
S
Enables/disables display of Data and (trunk only) RR packets.
D
Enables/disables display of QData packets on an X.25 or SNA line,
Q
Routing Update packets on a trunk.
Enables/disables display of Call Request/Clear packets on an X.25 or
C
SNA line, or Trunk ID packets on a trunk.
Enables/disables display of Restart and Reset packets on an X.25 or SNA
R
line, or Poll, RR-Final, SRej, Reset, and Reset-Confirm packets on a
trunk.
Enables/disables timestamps and lengths of packets.
T
Enables/disables display of all/no packets.
A
Exits Line Monitor mode.
[F3]
Local Node Displays
The signal names (with connector pin numbers in parentheses) are
listed as , , or
ON OFF UNK
transition between states). For different physical interfaces, the
names remain the same, but the numbers change.
(unknown: non-functional, unused, or in
LCN: All for Node: 10 LP: 2 Port: 2
"data (shown above).
Display Selection is:
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