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Chapter 11

SpeedTouch™ Advanced Diagnostics

11.3.5 Ethernet Diagnostics

Non-intrusive Sniffing For debugging purposes, the SpeedTouch™ offers a port mirroring feature. This means that, three out of the four physical ethernet ports can be used for network connections, while the remaining ethernet port can be used to connect a sniffing device. In this way, when there is a network problem, a sniffer can be connected without causing any intrusion in the network.

The first thing to do is to determine which ethernet port will be used for sniffing purposes. In the example below ethernet port four will be used. Use the following command to set port four as capturing port:

=>:eth switch mirror capture port=4 =>

To verify which port has been set as capture port, use the following command:

=>:eth switch mirror capture Mirror capture port=4

=>

You can now set a port that you want to monitor to on the mirror capture port. This can be done for egress traffic (packets leaving the modem) and ingress traffic (packets towards the modem). In the example below we will monitor ingress traffic on ethernet port one and egress traffic on ethernet port two. Use the following commands:

=>:eth switch mirror ingress port=1 state=enabled =>:eth switch mirror egress port=2 state=enabled:

All traffic comming in to the modem on ethernet port one will now be mirrored on ethernet port four. All traffic leaving the modem on port two will also be mirrored on ethernet port four. During port mirroring the capture port can still be used as a normal ethernet port.

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