Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] monitor an STM-1 link

["Sheahan, John" <John.Sheahan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: [Wireshark-users] monitor an STM-1 link

what are you using for your monitoring device?

 

My experience has been with using passive taps that are put inline on the OC3, then plugging in an OC3 NGenius probe to monitor and perform captures.

 

 

 

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From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tamás Varga
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 9:14 AM
To: Community support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] monitor an STM-1 link

Hi John,

the case is, that for monitoring purpose, both forward and backward link direction has to be connected to an Rx port on the monitoring device, otherwise the monitor device would influence the original traffic through the Tx port that we definitely do not want.

Tamas

 

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 From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sheahan, John
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 14:56
To: Community support list for Wireshark; wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] monitor an STM-1 link

if you are using a passive tap, you should be able to maintain bidirectional connectivity on the STM-1 and the link should have come back up. Perhaps you're tap is not passive?

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From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Tamás Varga
Sent: Mon 6/9/2008 8:25 AM
To: wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Wireshark-users] monitor an STM-1 link

Hi Experts,

we want to monitor the traffic of an STM-1 (OC-3) link
between two Cisco LS1010 ATM switches. For this purpose,
we put an optical splitter in both forward and backward
direction that produces -26 dBm signal level on the
monitored link. The receiver sensitivity on the monitor
device is stated to be -28 dBm. The receiver link on
the monitor node does not go up (after administrative shut
down is disabled).

Questions, if someone has experience:
- is it possible to force link up even no Tx I/F connected?
- does STM-1 need to have bidirectional connectivity?

thanks,
 Tamas
                           
 +---------+                                      +---------+
 |        Tx-----------------T--------(dampener)->Rx        |
 | LS1010  |                 |                    |  LS1010 |
 |        Rx<--(dampener)----------T--------------Tx        |
 +---------+                 |     |              +---------+
                             |     |
                             v     v
                         +-----------+
                         |Tx Rx Tx Rx|
                         |           |
                         |  Monitor  |
                         |  LS1010   |
                         +-----------+

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