User’s Manual of IGS-4215-16T2S
4.15 Diagnostics
This section provide the Physical layer and IP layer network diagnostics tools for troubleshoot. The diagnostic tools are
designed for network manager to help them quickly diagnose problems between point to point and better service customers.
Use the Diagnostics menu items to display and configure basic administrative details of the Industrial Managed Switch. Under
System the following topics are provided to configure and view the system information:
This section has the following items:
Cable Diagnostics
Ping Test
IPv6 Ping Test
4.15.1 Cable Diagnostics
The Cable Diagnostics performs tests on copper cables. These functions have the ability to identify the cable length and
operating conditions, and to isolate a variety of common faults that can occur on the Cat5 twisted-pair cabling. There might be
two statuses as follow:
If the link is established on the twisted-pair interface in 1000Base-T mode, the Cable Diagnostics can run without
disruption of the link or of any data transfer.
If the link is established in 100Base-TX or 10Base-T, the Cable Diagnostics cause the link to drop while the diagnostics
are running.
After the diagnostics are finished, the link is reestablished. And the following functions are available.
Coupling between cable pairs.
Cable pair termination
Cable Length
Cable Diagnostics is only accurate for cables of length from 15 to 100 meters.
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