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- MON.EXE is a monitoring utility to be used in conjunction with the
- G8BPQ switch. To date this is just a test version. I expect MON
- to become a much more useful network statistics collector in the
- future. Your ideas about what it should do are most welcome !
-
- SETUP:
-
- To setup and run mon.exe you will need to create a DESQview window
- of about 40k.
-
- On the DESQview Program line enter: c:\bbs\mon.exe
- On the DESQview Parameters line enter: -m # (where # = bpq
- stream number.)
-
- The bpq stream number is a channel provided by the bpq host mode
- and is not a com port number. The suggested value is 32. However,
- you may use any stream that is not being used by something else.
-
- For Example:
- If you are using YTNC with the parameters 25 1 1, bpq host
- ports 1 thru 25 are already being used. The first available
- host port would be 26. (See YTNC.DOC for further information.)
-
- The key here is NOT to use a port already in use for items like
- PAC4 and CHAT4 which also use host ports.
-
- On the DESQview Directory line enter: c:\bbs
- The DESQview options and advanced options are set just like the mail
- box (See Desqview in Install.doc)
-
- Note: You may also call mon.exe from a dos window in DESQview. From
- The c:\bbs> prompt enter:
- Mon -m 32 (or whatever stream number you desire. See above.)
- Note: "m" is not a variable as in the bbs config files.
-
- USE:
-
- It has several commands. The commands and capabilities are
- still under development ... and subject to change.
-
- enter - command line parameters and features.
- Command line format:
-
- m
- Port:
- +# - add channel # to display
- -# - drop channel from display
- a - monitors all ports
- 1 - monitors port 1, etc.
- n - monitors no ports
- r - toggles to monitor rx, tx, or rx and tx frames
- i - toggles to recieve text information or not.
- l - shows the number of calls heard recently.
- Port: # - enter port #
- o file - allows you to open a log file and log activity.
- c - closes log file opened with o command
- q - quit monitor
- s - stats command. Displays statistic on frames that MON has
- seen on each channel, and the percentage of those bytes
- that carry data with respect to the total bytes seen.
-
- STATS COMMAND DISPLAY
- FR = Total frames heard of all types
- %data = % of bytes that carry data
- L3 = Layer 3 bytes total
- L2 = Layer 2 bytes total
- L1 = Layer 1 bytes total
- REJ = Number of FR frames that were rejects.
-
- Note: MON cannot count retries, since it didn't hear them. BPQ stats are
- more accurate.
-
- u - toggles between showing all but UI frames in L list and all frames
- in L list.
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