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2. General Information
10/100/1000 Mbit/s Ethernet Networks Analysis Subsystem based on the
Bercut-MMT platform enables measurements and diagnostics of network
equipment according to RFC 2544 methods (for a brief description please
refer to par. 2.2, page 9 of the Manual) and basic IP testing.
2.1 Testing Procedure
In order to perform testing according to RFC 2544 methods, the following
should be arranged:
•
The Gigabit Ethernet analysis module, 10/100M Ethernet — B4-GBE
should be installed (brief information about module can be found in
section 2.3, page 10 ) according to procedure in section 3.3, page 73;
• the device should be connected to network under testing according to
diagrams in section 3.1, page 13 ; the loopback for traffic redirection
should be implemented, loopback description can be found in section 11,
page 73;
• RFC 2544 parameters basic configuration should be performed, accord-
ing to section 4, page 17 (interface configuration — IP and MAC ad-
dresses, frame size configuration, adding VLAN tags, frame priority,
load and test duration setting for throughput, frame loss level, latency,
back-to-back measurements);
•
to measure throughput, frame loss, latency, back-to-back, following pro-
cedure in section 5, page 73;
Other types of diagnostics include:
•
basic IP testing (ping, traceroute, arp, arping, ftp/http) — section 6,
page 43;
•
copper cable diagnostics and getting information about network inter-
faces status and SFP module — section 10, page 59;
2.2 RFC 2544 Method
This testing method is designed to determine characteristics of network in-
terconnection devices. RCF 2544 is a standard method of Ethernet networks
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