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INSTALLATION AND OPERATION MANUAL
RL1000GW
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Capture Ethernet service traffic
The system supports sniffing and capturing of Ethernet traffic for selected service IP interfaces.
This capability is important in order to diagnose network traffic of a service for debugging.
The capturing is available for IP interfaces set at the ACE.
Captures can be displayed at the terminal or exported to a user tftp server.
Commands Hierarchy
+ root
+ capture
- start –i {eth1.<vlan id> | eth1:<id>} [-C] [-s] [-y] [expression <>]
-
stop
-
delete
- export remote-address <destination address,A.B.C.D>
- show {captured-packets –c <number>| status}
-
help
Commands Description
Command
Description
Capture
Start: initiate Ethernet traffic capture on a selected ACE IP interface.
-i: mandatory prefix to be followed with the IP interface name eth1.<vlan id> where “vlan id” is the vlan
of the ip interface.
Stop : stop Ethernet traffic capture
Delete : delete capture files
Export remote-address: export file to a tftp server.
Show captured-packets –C<1-200>: display the captured content up to a chosen length (1-200) lines.
Show status : display capture configuration
Help: display help on settings options.
Example
1. Set an ip interface in the ACE for the vlan
router interface create address-prefix 172.18.212.232/24 vlan 1 purpose application-host
physical-interface eth2
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