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PMP 450 Operations Guide
Setting Up a Protocol Analyzer on Your
Network
pmp-0049 (September 2012)
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The equipment required to set up a protocol analyzer includes:
1 hub
Some Ethernet switches have a monitor mode (also called 'port mirroring', 'port monitoring‘). To
ensure that all packets are captured, set up a monitoring port on the hub/switch to monitor/mirror
the ports to which the PMP 450 equipment and premises are connected.
1 laptop computer with protocol analyzer software installed
2 straight-through Ethernet cables
1 power converter
Analyzing Traffic at an SM
The IP address of the protocol analyzer laptop computer must match the IP addressing scheme of the
SM. If the SM has DHCP enabled, then configure the laptop computer to automatically obtain an
address. If DHCP is not enabled, then ensure that the laptop computer is configured with a static IP
address in the same subnet as the SM.
The configuration for analyzing traffic at an SM is shown below:
Figure 51 Protocol analysis at the SM
SM
Power
Supply
Hub/
Switch
SM
Premises
Equipment
Sniffer
Laptop (i.e.
Wireshark)