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EDM01.05-01r1 DAG 4.3GE Card User Manual
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5.1 Starting Capture Session
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Process
(continued)
Process Description
Disabling individual
ports.
Each direction [A and B] can be individually
enabled and disabled for capture using dagfour.
tools/dagfour –d dag0 disableb
Starting a capture
session.
Once the capture parameters are configured, a
capture session is started by:
tools/dagsnap –v –o tracefile
Option
-v
provides user information during
capture; it can be omitted for automated trace
runs.
If the
–o tracefile
parameter is not specified
the tool writes to stdout, which can be used to
pipeline
dagsnap
with other tools from
dagtools
package.
By default
dagsnap
runs forever.
dagsnap
can
be stopped with a signal:
killall dagsnap
dagsnap
can also be configured to run for a
fixed number of seconds and then exit using the
–s flag
.
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