PVA-3000 Reference Manual
December 2, 2019
Sifos Technologies
Page
134
seconds for the 10/100/1000Base-T
test in Figure 6.1 and 29.5 seconds
per port in the 10/100Base-T test
cycle of Figure 6.2.
In Figure 6.3, the upper report
depicts marginal transmission
performance in the area of return
loss. Marginal does not necessarily
mean non-compliant to IEEE 802.3,
however it does indicate that the
performance is near the 802.3 limit
line. The lower report (segment)
indicates a 1000Base-T Receiver
Integrity failure where the port-
under-test failed to perform given the
impairments described for
1000Base-T earlier.
6.4.3.
Managing Test Limits and Link Delay Tolerances in
pva_veriphy
Although
pva_veriphy
is furnished as a compiled program file, users may modify certain decision criteria utilized
within
pva_veriphy
, namely the criteria that assign summary results based on quantitative parametric results and the
maximum tolerated link-up times. A text file,
pva_veriphy_limits.txt
, is provided within the
…Sifos/PSA1200/Config/env
subdirectory to effect this control.
The
pva_veriphy_limits.txt
file is organized as a table
shown in Figure 6.4. The
Link Stability Test (TEST1)
will by default produce the
summary result “GOOD” if
Link Stability measures at
least 99%
and
SNR
measures at least 31.1 dB.
The test will report
“MARGINAL” if the Link
Stability measures between
97% and 99%
or
the SNR
reads between 27.1 dB and
31 dB. Finally, if Link
Stability measures below
97%
or
SNR measures
below 27.1 dB, the
Summary will report
“FAIL”.
Similarly, the decision logic for the Transmission Test (TEST2) requires that as many as 13 parameters meet or exceed
certain criteria in order to be deemed “GOOD” and will produce a “FAIL” if any one of those parameters fall short of
the “MARGINAL” criteria. Users wishing to alter summary criteria should be aware that only the numeric values in
this file should ever be modified and that it is critical that the literal criteria names, e.g. TEST2_GOOD_100, always be
preserved as the first entry on each row.
The
pva_veriphy_limits.txt
file also includes default timing parameters for the maximum expected multi-port link
times associated with 10, 100, and 1000Base-T link-ups both with “clean” unimpaired connections and with maximum
802.3 insertion loss connections. These times won’t affect test results or test time in any way unless the ports-under-
test take longer than the time specified to effect link-ups at the given link rates and impairment conditions. So, for
example, if an Ethernet switch might take longer than 12 seconds to link up to 6 ports to 1000Base-T, then the
LINKTIME_1000_CLEAN entry could be increased to a larger value.
The
pva_veriphy
test program will run in the absence of the
pva_veriphy_limits.txt
, however if the file is present, the
values in the file will always override the default values for summary criteria and link-up times.
Figure 6.3
6-Port 10/100/1000Base-T Test Reports with Performance Issues
Figure 6.4
pva_veriphy_limits.txt File in the …/env/ Directory
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