Testing a Channel with Identification and Mirror Requests

Introduction

This topic indicates the procedure to follow to test a communication channel by means of Identification and Mirror requests.

Identifying a Station

The following procedure allows the identification of a designated station.

Step	Actions
1	Select the address of the station to be interrogated with the help of the field Station.
2	Click the Identification button. Result: The response appears in the Receive Response window.

Sending the Mirror Request

The following procedure allows the sending of the Mirror request and thus tests the routing of information between two devices.

Step	Action
1	Select the address of the station to be interrogated with the help of the field Station.
2	Click the Mirror button. Result: The following window appears.
3	Input the length of data to be sent (maximum 80 characters).
4	Click the Send button. Result: The response appears in the Receive Response window. The response contains the character string ABCDEFGH that corresponds to the length of data sent 8.