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Conference netcad::hub_mgnt

Title:	DEChub/HUBwatch/PROBEwatch CONFERENCE
Notice:	Firmware -2, Doc -3, Power -4, HW kits -5, firm load -6&7
Moderator:	NETCAD::COLELLADT

Created:	Wed Nov 13 1991
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	4455
Total number of notes:	16761

1147.0. "writing captured data to disk (probewatch/ultrix)" by GIDDAY::STRAUSS (talking through my binoculars) Wed Jun 22 1994 20:38

    If this is the wrong place to ask, I hope someone can redirect me ...
    
    A customer using Probewatch for Ultrix V1.0 wants to understand how
    captured frames are written to disk.  Presumably captured frames are
    stored in a buffer, and the buffer is periodically written to disk.
    
    Is this how it's done?  If so, how big is the buffer, and what triggers
    the write?  (buffer full, or something else?)
    
    Thanks in advance for any help.
    
    	leon
    
    ps - I don't know why the customer wants to know this ...

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1147.1 captured packets kept on probe until wanted NAC::FORREST Wed Jul 06 1994 21:18 11

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1147.1	captured packets kept on probe until wanted	NAC::FORREST		`Wed Jul 06 1994 21:18`	11
	The packets are captured according to the filters set up and stored in dynamic RAM on the probe. It is kept there, either wrapping when the buffer is full, or stopping when full, as directed by PROBEwatch. I believe it can store 1 Megabyte. The data is uploaded to disk, when directed by the PROBEwatch user, through a click on UPLOAD. If power is lost to the probe prior to uploading to disk, the captured data is gone forever.

	The packets are captured according to the filters set up and 
	stored in dynamic RAM on the probe. It is kept there, either 
	wrapping when the buffer is full, or stopping when full, as 
	directed by PROBEwatch. I believe it can store 1 Megabyte. 

	The data is uploaded to disk, when directed by the PROBEwatch 
	user, through a click on UPLOAD.

	If power is lost to the probe prior to uploading to disk, the 
	captured data is gone forever.