Olicom 8600, 8605 manual Network Monitoring

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Network Monitoring
Feature	Function	Benefit
RMON support	Support for Token-	Enables collection and analysis
	Ring specific remote	of enhanced traffic-
	monitoring.	management data.
Passive Port	All traffic flowing on	Eases the management task by
Monitoring	the monitored port is	making it easy to collect
	copied to the	Token-Ring statistics with a
	monitoring port (the	special passive network
	monitoring port is a	analyzer.
	true copy of the
	monitored port).
Active Port	All traffic switched	Eases the management task by
Monitoring	to and from the	making it easy to collect
	monitored port is	network statistics and carry out
	also sent to the	protocol analysis. Active
	monitoring port (the	monitoring respects the MAC
	order and timing of	protocol, allowing the use of a
	frames on the	standard network analyzer.
	monitoring port can
	be different).
Built-in port	Many MAC layer,	Provides a detailed picture of
counters	error, and frame	port traffic.
	forwarding counters
	are collected per port

Table 14. Network Monitoring

CrossFire 8600/8605 Token-Ring Switches v. 1.2, P/N: 710001641 Switch Theory of Operation