iSCSI/Gigabit Ethernet Pod for Bus Doctor Analyzer

The Gigabit Ethernet Pod turns the Bus Doctor into a full-featured iSCSI protocol analyzer, with the depth, ease-of-use, protocol decoding and statistics needed by software and hardware engineers and systems testers. It also provides features needed such as packet-level triggering, filtering, and state configuration of iSCSI traffic.

iSCSI Displays
At the Command level, the iSCSI analyzer provides a big-picture view for testers who are troubleshooting system level or application level issues.

The State display provides decoding of each 32-bit word transfer for users who need to monitor iSCSI software, device drivers or firmware. If you want to see the code group name, 10b data patterns, running disparity and for each event, just mouse-over the data column and a pop-up window will show you the information.

iSCSI Capturing
The iSCSI analyzer provides multiple predefined capture configurations operable in both channel directions. For either direction of traffice, the user may choose whether to capture:

• 10b Errors
• Ordered Sets (include/exclude idles)
• Frames (optionally truncating packets)

Custom capture modes can also be created.

The user can also choose to generate Idle traffic to check cabling and to see if the Ethernet link is up. iSCSI parameters may also be set.

iSCSI Triggering
The iSCSI analyzer provides high-level trigger configurations for most common trigger scenarios. The high-level trigger dialogs provide powerful capabilities to trigger on the errors and protocol header information. Using advanced technology, you may trigger on particular header information - without needing to specify the length or content of preceding headers. Triggering on a particular iSCSI header or command is very simple.

iSCSI Trace Filtering
Users can create and save custom capture filters. After capturing, the Show/Hide control allows you to designate which protocols are displayed in the Command Listing and which portions of the frames are displayed in the State Listing.

iSCSI Statistics
The Real-Time Monitor can be easily configured so you can see interesting and usable bus statistics while taking a trace or at any other time.

Protocols, Standards, & Speed

Protocols & Standards:

802.3 (Ethernet) 802.2 (LLC) ARP/RARP IPv4 IPv6

ICMP ICMPv6 TCP UDP iSCSI

Speeds:
1.125 Gb/sec

Other:
Uses two(2) 5v GBICs for network connectivity