Sniffer® Portable Professional User's Guide - NetScout

Chapter 5
Protocol Distribution
114 Sniffer Portable Professional
You can use the Protocol Distribution application to report network usage
based on the network-, transport-, and application-layer protocols. For
example, you can monitor IPX/SPX, TCP/IP, NetBIOS, AppleTalk,
DECnet, SNA, Banyan, and many other protocols.
Protocol distribution monitors popular IP applications, such as NFS, FTP,
Telnet, SMTP, POP2, POP3, HTTP (WWW), Gopher, NNTP, SNMP,
X-Window, and others. It also monitors IPX transport-layer protocols
such as NCP, SAP, RIP, NetBIOS, Diagnostic, Serialization, NMPI, NLSP,
SNMP, and SPX.
You can view the protocol distribution in a table or as a bar or pie chart.
You can also view the number and percentage of packets or bytes for a
protocol.
Sniffer Portable Professional lets you export the protocol distribution
data for tabulation or charting. Refer to Exporting Monitor Data on page
120.
Figure 5-14 shows a Protocol Distribution bar chart for an Ethernet
adapter.