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EDM01-02: DAG 4.2S Card User Guide

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Summary of Contents for DAG 4.2S

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Page 2: ...839 0540 Fax 64 7 839 0543 Americas Endace USA Ltd Suite 220 11495 Sunset Hill Road Reston Virginia 20190 United States of America Phone 1 703 382 0155 Fax 1 703 382 0155 Europe Middle East Africa End...

Page 3: ...and Materials The product that this manual pertains to may include extra components and materials that are not essential to its basic operation but are necessary to ensure compliance to the product st...

Page 4: ...Card LED Status 9 4 2 DAG 4 2S Card Capture Session 10 4 4 DAG 4 2S Card Configuration Options 13 4 5 Inspect Links Data and Cells 16 4 6 Reporting Problems 18 Chapter 5 Running Data Capture Software...

Page 5: ...EDM01 02 DAG 4 2S Card User Guide 2005 ii Version 7 May 2006...

Page 6: ...ption The purpose of this DAG Card User Manual is to describe Installing DAG 4 2S card Setting Optical Power DAG 4 2S Card Confidence Testing Running Data Capture Software Synchronizing Clock Time Dat...

Page 7: ...tecture Description Serial SONET optical data is received by the DAG 4 2S card optical interface and fed through a demultiplexor into a physical layer ASIC The packet data is then fed immediately into...

Page 8: ...III LE HE or newer chip set Minimum of 128 MB RAM At least one free 64 bit 3 3v signaling only PCI slot with 3 3V and 5V power Software distribution requires 30MB free space Endace Linux Install CD re...

Page 9: ...EDM01 02 DAG 4 2S Card User Guide 2005 4 Version 7 May 2006...

Page 10: ...the following sections of information Installation of Operating System and Endace Software Insert the Card into PC DAG 4 2S Card Optical Connectors 2 1 Installation of Operating System and Endace Soft...

Page 11: ...l the top is for the transmitted signal The transmit port is only connected if the loop back facility being used in the DAG to daisy chain systems or if a data generation program being used If the Tx...

Page 12: ...bre In this chapter This chapter covers the following sections of information DAG 4 2S Card Optical Power Input Splitter Losses 3 1 DAG 4 2S Card Optical Power Input Description The optical power inpu...

Page 13: ...put 90 10 splitter will have losses of about 10 dBm in the high loss output and 2 dBm in the low loss output Single mode fibre loss A single mode fibre connected to a multi mode input has minimal extr...

Page 14: ...YSYCC Style DAG 4 2S Card Configuration Options Inspect Links Data and Cells Reporting Problems 4 1 Interpreting DAG Card LED Status Description The DAG 4 2S card has a block of 6 status LEDs one blue...

Page 15: ...ports configuration status and physical layer interface statistics for the DAG 4 2S card In a troubleshooting configuration options si should be passed to the tool to watch the operational status of t...

Page 16: ...tand Link Layer Configuration Learn about the link layer configuration in use at the network link being monitored Important parameters include specific scrambling options in use If the information can...

Page 17: ...nomuxeql link PoS noreset OC48c nofcl noeql sonet slave scramble PoS nopmin nopmax nodiscard crc32 pscramble norxpkts notxpkts txrclk 78MHz long 61440 short 40 packet varlen slen 48 packetA drop 0 pci...

Page 18: ...SONET PoS mode no muxfcl un set facility loopback in the MUX no muxeql un set equipment loopback in the MUX no reset hold release framer in reset oc48c set framer to OC48c mode no fcl un set facility...

Page 19: ...there is either no signal at the receiver or the optical signal strength is too low to be recognized OoF Out of frame If set the section overhead processor is not locked to the SONET stream LoF Loss...

Page 20: ...r of PoS frames aborted since last reading FCSErr Number of PoS frames with FCS errors since last reading Invalid Number of Invalid PoS frames received since last reading Path_Label SONET SDH C2 byte...

Page 21: ...Check that the LoS OoF and LoF being the first three columns are zero Check light levels Step 2 Inspect for BIP Errors Check that no BIP errors occur otherwise check cabling and light levels Step 3 C...

Page 22: ...s not normally needed The laser radiation is in the invisible infrared part of the spectrum When the laser is turned on the red laser warning LED will be lit In a test bench situation where two DAG ca...

Page 23: ...ftware version package in use 5 UNIX operating system only Any compiler errors or warnings when building DAG driver or tools 6 UNIX operating system only For Linux and FreeBSD messages generated when...

Page 24: ...e has been downloaded and the card is configured The integrity of the card s physical layer is then set and checked Process Setting a data capture session is described in the following process Process...

Page 25: ...s longer than slen are truncated Packets shorter than slen will produce shorter records saving bandwidth and storage space Full packet capture for example tools dagfour d dag0 varlen slen 1536 Setting...

Page 26: ...key strokes CTL C dagsnap can also be configured to run for a fixed number of seconds and then exit using the s option 5 2 High Load Performance Description As the DAG card captures packets from the...

Page 27: ...a faster host CPU may be required Increasing buffer size The host PC buffer can be increased to deal with bursts of high traffic load on the network link By default the dagmem driver reserves 32MB of...

Page 28: ...UTC Accurate time reference can be obtained from an external clock by connecting to the DAG card using the synchronisation connector or the host PCs clock can be used in software as a reference source...

Page 29: ...hold health threshold in ns default 596 Option default RS422 in none out none None in none out rs422in RS422 input hostin Host input unused overin Internal input synchronise to host clock auxin Aux in...

Page 30: ...ock If a PC is running NTP to synchronise its own clock then the DUCK clock is less smooth because the PC clock is adjusted in small jumps However overall the DUCK clock does not drift away from UTC T...

Page 31: ...ps being correct then one card is configured as the clock master for the other Locking cards together Although the master card s clock will drift against UTC the cards are locked together The cards ar...

Page 32: ...8424ns crystal Actual 49999354Hz Synthesized 16777216Hz input Total 87464 Bad 0 Singles Missed 0 Longest Sequence Missed 0 start Wed Apr 27 14 27 41 2005 host Thu Apr 28 14 59 14 2005 dag Thu Apr 28 1...

Page 33: ...2005 host Thu Apr 28 14 59 06 2005 dag Thu Apr 28 14 59 06 2005 Connecting time distribution server The TDS 2 module connects to any DAG card with a standard RJ 45 Ethernet cable and can be placed som...

Page 34: ...d socket connector pin outs Figure 6 1 RJ45 Plug and Socket Connector Pin outs Out pin connections Normally the GPS input should be connected to the A channel input pins 3 and 6 The DAG can also outpu...

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Page 36: ...in big endian network byte order All payload data is captured as a byte stream no byte re ordering is applied Table Table 7 1 shows the Type 1 PoS HDLC record BYTE 3 BYTE 2 BYTE 1 BYTE 0 timestamp tim...

Page 37: ...data formats used Data Format Description type This field contains an enumeration of the frame subtype If the type is zero then this is a legacy format 0 TYPE_LEGACY 1 TYPE_HDLC_POS PoS w HDLC framin...

Page 38: ...lctr loss counter A 16 bit counter recording the number of packets lost since the previous record Records can be lost between the DAG card and memory hole due to overloading on PCI bus The counter st...

Page 39: ...h a single 64 bit subtraction It is not necessary to check for overflows between the two halves of the structure as is needed when comparing Unix time structures which is also available to Windows use...

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