I believe this is the box I was thinking of in my last email.
The trick in this case is to get the traffic TO the Port Analyzer
properly. The problem here is that the PA only has a single receive
line, and the only system that I'm aware of that will aggregate
bi-directional FC traffic onto a single line is the MDS SPAN feature.
I suppose you *might* be able to use passive optical splitters, plus
two of these boxes, then capture the two different streams with an
Ethernet packet sniffer, but I'm not sure how passive the PA is. If it
requires a login before capturing, for example, this won't work.
Ian
On Nov 4, 2004, at 4:42 PM, Alan Emery wrote:
Depending on the infrastructure, there may be another solution. For
example, the Cisco MDS 9000 has a Port Analyzer Adapter that converts
fiber channel frames received via a span port to a format that is
readable by Ethereal. A good illustration of this is available on the
Cisco site at the following URL.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/ps4159/ps4358/
products_installation_and_configuration_guide09186a00801dea26.html
Alan Emery
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> Are there plans for feature to capture FC/HBA Traffic through
ethereal?
We don't really have firm plans for much of *anything* in Ethereal -
and
that particular feature depends more on code Ethereal uses, namely
libpcap and the OS code that it would use, and we don't have control
over that.
If support for that is added to any OSes that support Fibre Channel,
so
that libpcap could capture traffic received by and sent on an FC
adapter
on a machine, then we could make Ethereal capture that (although "we"
would include somebody with access to a machine running that OS and a
FC
adapter).
> Can it be done right now w/ ethereal?
No.
> If not, what other options one has
> to capture info from server side for FC traffic w/o buying expensive
> Fabric Analyzer?
I don't know. There might not be any other options.
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