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Encapsulation • Local Profile: Sets the encapsulation (and eventually the
C-VID and C-VLAN priority) to the same value configured
in the local profile (See section 2.3). This is the default
configuration. It is useful when the user wants to control
the encapsulation in various streams through a single set-
ting.
Source MAC address
from
Establishes the origin of the source MAC address for the cur-
rent stream. There are two possible settings:
• Local: The source address is set to the factory MAC
address assigned to the port. Use this setting if there is no
other requirement.
• Manual: The source address is set to the value configured
in Source MAC address. Use manual MAC addresses if
you want to simulate traffic generated by an equipment dif-
ferent to the tester or, in multi-stream operation, to simu-
late traffic transmitted from different stations. Most of the
times you will want to avoid duplicated addresses in your
network. For this reason, make sure that no other equip-
ment is using the manually configured MAC address.
• Remote: This option is available only in RFC 2544 or
eSAM downstream asymmetric tests (See section 7.4). It
configures the source MAC address to be the far end
address. It must be taken into account that in downstream
asymmetric tests, the far end is configured for traffic gen-
eration this setting corresponds with traffic to be generated
not in the local unit but in a different one.
Source MAC address Source MAC address carried by the frames generated in the
current stream if Source MAC address type is set to Manual.
Anything from 00:00:00:00:00:00 to ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff is allowed.
Table 4.1: Ethernet Frame Settings
Setting Description
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