Specifications
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Setting up your Ethernet streams, lters and channels
Once the plugin has been installed and enabled, and WinPcap has been installed, you should be able to see
a new icon on your DS-7 SETUP toolbar, which looks like this:
The rst thing we need to do is to add a STREAM. Click the button in the toolbar below the ETHERNET icon
to do that:
Click the “+” button to add an ethernet STREAM
Some controls will appear below:
Datastream dialog, ethernet data source selected
Data Source Choose ETHERNET, or UDP, or DEWESOFT (with Dewetron hardware this will always be
either ethernet or UDP). We will cover ETHERNET and UDP setups below.
Select Interface Choose the appropriate network card (the one that you will be reading the data from).
Max Packet Size 1520 is the default, and is also the maximum length of the ethernet frame.
- Hint: If you have a fast stream with shorter frames, you can improve the performance and reduce data le size
by reducing this value.
Selecting ETHERNET is the simplest to setup. Simply choose the interface and maximum packet size as
mentioned above. Then click OK at the bottom of this dialog box to register these settings.
However, if you have chosen UDP, the dialog box will change slightly, and provide some alternate setup
parameters to congure: