Brocade Communications Systems Network Advisor 12.3.0, User Manual

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4. Choose one of the following options in the Payload Pattern area to configure the payload
pattern to use in the traffic test
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Select the Predefined option and select a pre-defined payload patteren from the list.
Options include BYTE_NOT, WORD_NOT, QUAD_NOT, BYTE_RAMP, WORD_RAMP,
QUAD_RAMP, BYTE_LFSR, RANDOM, CRPAT, CSPAT, CHALF_SQ, CQTR_SQ, RDRAM_PAT,
jCRPAT, jCJTPAT, jCSPAT, PRED_RAND, SMI_TEST, CJPAT, QUAD_NOTP, JSPAT, and JTSPAT.
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Select the User Defined option and enter a pattern in the field.
Minimum is 0. Maximum is 2,147,483,647.
An example of the payload pattern displays in the Example field.
5. Select the Forward Error Correction - Enable check box to enable forward error correction (FEC)
during the D-Port test.
Clear to disable (default).
6. Select the Credit Recovery - Enable check box to enable credit recovery (CR) during the D-Port
test.
Clear to disable (default).
7. Click OK on the Link Traffic Test Configuration dialog box.
The Diagnostic Port Test dialog box displays. Return to step 5 of “Troubleshooting port
diagnostics” on page 1058.
FCIP troubleshooting
NOTE
FCIP troubleshooting is only available for Fabric OS devices.
You can perform the following operations using FCIP troubleshooting:
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Ping. Use to confirm that the configured FCIP tunnels are working correctly.
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Trace Route. Use to view the route information from a source port on the local device to a
destination port on another device and determine where connectivity is broken.
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Performance. Select to view FCIP tunnel performance between two devices.
Configuring IP ping
NOTE
IP Ping only supported on Fabric OS devices running Fabric OS 5.2 or later.
NOTE
IP Perf is not supported on the Fabric OS 8 Gbps Extension Switch or Blade.
You can also verify IP connectivity when configuring an FCIP circuit. For more information, refer to
“Adding an FCIP circuit” .
To configure IP ping, complete the following steps.