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    NuDOG-MPT User ’ s Manual V 1.0.0 August 29, 2007[...]

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    E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® Xtramus T echnologies E-mail: sales@xtramus.com Web: http://www .xtramus.com Phone: +886-2-8227-661 1 Fax: +886-2-8227-6 622 Copyright Copyright © 2007 Xtramus T echnologies. All Rights Reserved. The information contained in this document is the property of Xt ramus T ec[...]

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    E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® CONTENTS 1. Introduction ................................................................................................................ 1 1.1 Specifications ........................................................................................................ 1 1.2 Fu[...]

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    1 E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® 1. Introduction NuDOG-MPT makes NuDOG an accurate and ef ficient Ethernet tester for batch tasks. V arious p acket generation and reception testing items could be set for pre-defined testing modules. The utility of NuDOG-MPT is easy to load testing models. All simple an[...]

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    2 E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® BC_100H BC_100F Filter T est FT_10H FT_10F FT_100H FT_100F CRC Error T est CRC_10H CRC_10F CRC_100H CRC_100F Ping T est Ping (A → B) Ping (B → A) Ping (A → N) Ping (B → N) 2. Software Installation and Uninstallation 2.1 Installation Double click NuDOG-MPT_setup.[...]

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    3 E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® Input user ’s information. Then click Next for next step. Confirm and review installation settings. Click Inst all for next step. NuDOG-MPT Inst allation is in progress. NuDOG-MPT has been Inst alled successfully . Click Finish to exit the Wizard. 2.2 Uninstallation I[...]

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    4 E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® 3. Main Window The main window of the user interface is illustrated below. The top-level menu includes the following major parts: Setting , View and Help. 3.1 T able Description The choices for the Setting Menu are described in the t able below: Menu Choice Usage Modify[...]

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    5 E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® The choices for the Help Menu are described in the t able below: Menu Choice Usage Read Me Open an introduction file about settings. About NuDOG-MPT Show information of NuDOG-MPT version. 3.2 Interface Description 3.2.1 Result S tatus The LED indicators of Result St atu[...]

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    6 E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® Loads settings of the model corresponding to DUT . Reloads the same model if the parameters have been modified. Connects to NuDOG . S tarts testing. S tops testing. Exits the program. First, click button to open an .ini file. Click button to run the test. 3.2.3 Model Na[...]

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    7 E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® 3.2.5 T ime Tim e table displays the clock (the current time), what time the test st arts and finishes, and the total time the test t akes. 3.2.6 Iteration Setting Input the total number of times the test to be run, including tot al loop, loop for current, pass time and[...]

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    8 E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® 3.2.8 Counter Window This table shows det ailed transmit and receive counters and any error for Port A and Port B during every task. 3.2.9 T ask T able The lower middle table shows which T ask selected to be test ed, and for each test loop, every relative task with Star[...]

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    9 E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® test), Time Used (how much time totally used), and Remark states the t ask result in Pass , Fail or Stopped . 3.2.10 LED Panel LED panel on the lower right shows ev ery task result. Gray light means frame is not chosen to be tested or not tested yet; green light means f[...]

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    10 E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® 4.1.1 Configuration Setup Configuration Setup includes two settings, Environment and T asks . Environment refers to the surroundings and conditions of the configuration settings while T asks refers to which t ask(s) selected to be tested. T ask Setting cont ains two pa[...]

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    11 E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® 4.1.2.2 T ask Selected # The column of T ask Selected # shows what test s are chosen to be tested in order . Click the desired test and then click Up button or Down button to arrange the selected tasks in orde r . Click Reset button to clear all tasks selected. When th[...]

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    12 E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® In T ransmit tab, the main purpose is to edit frame settings to transmit. More det ails are elaborated below . There are two options for frame length: Random and Fixed. The bytes of frame length range from 60 to 1514 without CRC. There are eight types of frame pattern [...]

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    13 E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® 4.1.2.4 Media T ype Change Media Type allows changing media type in Nway or in Force. Or simply select OFF to stay with the default. Assign duration in seconds to wait for media type being changed. The time may vary with DUT type. There are three types for link status.[...]

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    14 E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® In LED Check Setting, check the box of Enable LED Check Remind er to activate the four default settings. A message window will pop up every time before test to inquire about LED indicators being accurate. 4.1.2.5 Learning and Other Select Learning and Other tab to set [...]

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    15 E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® In Learning Setting , check the box of Enable Learning to set up Frame Count, Frame Gap and Tx Pkt T imeout for sending learning packets before task. Halt on Error determines whether the test should be carried on or stopped when an error occurs. Allow Frame Loss determ[...]

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    16 E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® 4.1.3 T ask Ping When Ping task is selected, the lower half appears the settings for Ping. The connection directions are available from Port A to Port B, from Port B to Port A, or from Port A or B to a connected switch or a network device. 4.1.3.1 VLAN Setting Check th[...]

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    17 E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® 4.1.4 Environment Setting Environment setting includes Log File Setting, Check Link W ait T ime and Check Result W ait T ime to apply to the configuration. Assign Prefix and Suffix in Log File Setting . Prefix refers to put a header (default: Report) in a log filename.[...]

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    18 E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® A window as below will p op up if Bar code is chosen in Suffix. Input the bar code of the DUT in blank and click OK to exit. Assign the number of seconds to wait before checking the link st atus. Assign the number of seconds to wait to check with the result. When modif[...]

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    19 E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® File name config is usually set as default for a new file na me. Remember to save the config file after renewing a model. 4.2 Load Model Load the model corresponding to DUT before test. Click the Open button to open a *.ini file.[...]

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    20 E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® 4.3 Modify Model After loading a model, Click Setting on the top menu and choose Modify Model . Its main purpose is to bring out existing configuration files to ch oose and to modify previous frame settings. As the same with New Model, there are two sections in Configu[...]

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    21 E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® In T ask Setting, there are T est Scenarios and T ask Selected #. 4.4 Modify Configuration When the test is finished, the result is saved in a log file. Click Show Current Log to read the log information in notepad. There are two p arts in log files: SUMMAR Y and DET A[...]

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    22 E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® Show Current Config is to open a notep ad for the current configuration file (*.ini) of a loaded model to show its environment and det ailed parameters of each t ask.[...]

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    23 E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® Click Show Current Folder to open the current folder , which saves log files in the same model. Click Open button to bring out the window for the list of *.log files. T ask results are directly footnoted in file names. 5. Testing After all the settings and configuratio[...]

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    24 E-Mail: sales@xtramus.com Http://www . X tramus.com XTRAMUS TECHNOL OGI ES ® However , if any of the tasks fails, then the window of FA I L will pop up.[...]