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Table 57 Advanced: Session Trace (continued)

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

 

TFTP Server IP

Specify the primary and/or secondary TFTP IP address in the Primary TFTP Server

Address

IP Address and/or Secondary TFTP IP Address fields.

 

Enter the IP address(es) in dotted decimal notation. For example, 192.168.1.10.

 

Enter the time interval (in minutes between 5 and 1440) the VSG waits before

 

sending the session information to the TFTP server(s).

 

Note: If there are 50 session trace records, the VSG sends the

 

session information to the TFTP server even if the time interval

 

is not up.

 

 

Apply

Click Apply to save the settings.

 

 

25.1.2 Session Trace Filename Convention

The subscriber session information is stored a plain text file with a “txt” filename extension. The general structure of the filename is <hostname>DDMMYYHHMMSS.txt. For example, “MIS221004131543.txt” is the file name of a session information file created at 13:15:43 PM on October 22, 2004 on a VSG with a hostname of “MIS”.

You can view the subscriber session trace information using any text editor. The following figure shows an example of the session information file the VSG sends to a TFTP server.

Figure 117 Session Trace Information Example

Host Name

User Name Date VLANId SourceIP SourceMac SourcePort

DestIP DestPort

MIS

Cindy

22Oct04130403

192.168.1.10

0085A0010104

3974

192.168.1.1

80

MIS

Cindy

22Oct04130404

192.168.1.10

0085A0010104

3977

172.20.0.63

53

MIS

Cindy

22Oct04130440

192.168.1.10

0085A0010104

3991

172.20.0.27

80

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The following table describes the fields in a session information file.

Table 58 Session Trace File Fields

FIELD

DESCRIPTION

 

 

Host Name

This is the host (or system) name of the VSG.

 

 

User Name

This is the subscriber account username. This field is empty if you disable

 

authentication in the Authentication screen (see Chapter 9 on page 80 for more

 

information).

Date

This is the date and time the VSG creates a session trace record.

 

 

VLANId

This is the VID of the VLAN to which a subscriber belongs. This field is empty if no

 

VLAN tag is present (see Chapter 13 on page 112 for more information).

SourceIP

This is the IP address of the subscriber.

 

 

SourceMac

This is the MAC address of the subscriber’s computer.

 

 

SourcePort

This is the source port number of the subscriber.

 

 

DestIP

This is the destination IP address the subscriber accesses.

 

 

DestPort

This is the destination port number for this session.

 

 

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