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2019.0. "DB900MX as an FDDI analyser" by GIDDAY::STANISLAUS () Wed Feb 15 1995 14:23

    
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Note 1585.0             Poor Man's FDDI LANanalyzer ????                 1 reply
GIDDAY::STANISLAUS                                   36 lines  15-FEB-1995 07:04
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    Request for a POOR MAN's FDDI LANANALYZER
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Can I use a FDDI to Ethernet bridge like a DB900MX 
and put the bridge in a mode where it will send all packets that it sees 
on the FDDI onto one of it's 6 Ethernet Ports. Then use an Ethernet Analyser
to capture the data. Generally the bridge will only send data on the Ethernet
port if that destination station is on that Ethernet port. Whereas I want to
capture all FDDI data by using the DB900MX to send all FDDI data onto one
of the 6 Ethernet ports. Can I make the DB900MX do this ?

	I hope I am not talking an impossibilty here.

	I am chasing a LAVc problem on an FDDI cluster and I wish to capture
LAVc packets on the FDDI ring. I do not have a WG DA30,a HP Network Advisor
and I am unable to rent one with an FDDI interface, here in Australia. No
Network General Sniffer either. The problem I have is intermittent PEA0
errors on some nodes on the FDDI ring.

        I don't believe I have a physical layer problem.
    
    Alphonse


Regards,
Alphonse                         

	

    
       I think you can't right now using 900MX as a probe,
      
       jean-yves