Step-By-Step Guide#

Add Chassis#

Click the Add Chassis button.

Enter the IP of the Management port under Chassis Address. Use xena as default Chassis Password.

Add/Configure Port/s#

Select the Port(s) you need to use.

Choose the Port/s you want to configure.

Port Roles

The following rules apply when assigning roles to ports:

There must be exactly one Multicast Source (MC Source) port. The MC Source port is the port that acts as the multicast server and transmits the multicast traffic to the multicast groups. There must be at least one Multicast Destination (MC Destination) port. The MC Destination ports act as the multicast clients and will receive the traffic sent to the multicast groups. If the selected tests require burdening traffic there must be at least two Unicast Burdening (UC Burden) ports. Burdening ports are used to emulate additional unicast traffic to burden the DUT.

Physical Port Properties

Inter-Frame Gap

Set to 20 -> 12B (Minimum allowed by Ethernet at 100% load)

(12+8B Preamble equals 20B)

Can be set to 16B to achieve >100% load for port pressure testing

Values range between 16B-20B

Adjust PPM

Specifies an optional speed reduction on the transmit side of the port, expressed as a ppm value.

Enable PAUSE mode

This means enable Flow Control on this port

Latency offset

Used to automatically eliminate transceiver + cable latency.