Sniffer® Portable Professional User's Guide - NetScout

Real-Time Expert Display
Some hosts may be configured to route traffic to default gateways, but
a route from such a host to a default gateway might never be advertised.
Unless you configure static default routes, the RIP Expert will incorrectly
diagnose frames sent from a host to a default gateway as misdirected.
If a default route you have configured is also advertised, the other route
is ignored, since the one you configured is permanently in the table.
To configure or disable RIP analysis:
1 Select Expert Options from the Tools menu.
2 Click the RIP Options tab.
3 Select the level of RIP analysis you want to perform from the
drop-down list:
No traffic analysis (RIP disabled) disables the RIP Expert.
Full traffic analysis (counts and analysis) produces traffic
counts and detects misdirected frames.
Traffic counts only produces only traffic counts.
4 Expert discovers the routers on the network during capture and
displays them in the router table of the RIP Options tab. You can
add or remove routers from the table using the Add Router and
Delete buttons to the right of the Routers table.
5 The Subnet table displays the subnets that Expert detects on your
network automatically during capture and the subnets you add
manually. The Source column indicates if the subnet is detected
by the Expert (Network) or added manually (User). Add or
remove subnets from the table using the Add Subnet and Delete
buttons to the right of the Subnet table.
IMPORTANT: The RIP Expert requires that the IP subnet
address and subnet mask be set properly in the Subnet Masks
Tab.
6 Select Auto Discover Subnets if you want Expert to discover the
subnets on your network automatically during capture.
7 Click OK.
NOTE: For RIP packets to be analyzed by the Expert, the
connection layer or the application layer must be set to Analyze in
the Objects tab of the Expert Properties dialog box. RIP sits above
UDP; the RIP interpreter must be called from the UDP interpreter.
UDP is considered to be a transport layer; for the transport layer
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