Specifications

9030751 E7 Configuration Views
3-7
Repeater Configuration View
Collision Threshold
Displays the threshold number of collisions per good packet, within the alarm
timebase, that will generate a collision alarm. You can modify this value.
Allows you to configure whether broadcast alarms are disabled or enabled.
Broadcast Threshold
Displays the threshold number of broadcasts received, within the alarm
timebase, that will generate a broadcast alarm. You can modify this value.
Allows you to configure whether error alarms are disabled or enabled.
Error Threshold
Displays the percentage of errors per good packet, within the alarm timebase,
that will generate an error alarm.
Error Source
This area of the Repeater Configuration view provides a series of buttons,
allowing you to select the types of errors to include in the error sum. The
selectable error types are as follows:
CRC
Displays the number of packets received with bad Cyclical Redundancy
Checks (CRC).
Runts
Displays the number of runt packets received. A runt packet is one byte less
than the standard Ethernet frame of 64 bytes, not including preamble.
OOW_Colls
Displays the number of out-of-window collisions, those outside the standard
window (51.2µs), due to a network problem.
Alignment
Displays the number of misaligned packets detected.
No_Resource
Displays the number of times the board ran out of resources (i.e., lack of buffer
space) and packets could not be accepted.
Giants
Displays the amount of giant packets received. A giant packet exceeds 1518
bytes, not including preamble.
Broadcast Alarms
Error Alarms