Cable Diagnostic - SMC Networks SMC8024L2 Management Manual

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Cable Diagnostic

You can perform cable diagnostics for all ports or selected ports to
diagnose any cable faults (Short, Open etc..) and feedback a distance to the
fault.
Field Attributes
• Cable Diagnostics – It can be performed on a per-port basis. Select the
port that you want to do the cable diagnostics.
• Cable Status – Show the cable length, operating conditions and isolate
a variety of common faults that can occur on the CAT5 twisted pair
cabling.
switch which means they will not reach the mirror port or their
intended destination port. Input rate-limiting in conjunction with
port flow-control could be used to ensure that the total ingress
bandwidth never exceeds the egress bandwidth.
Figure 18 Port Mirroring
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