Sniffer® Portable Professional User's Guide - NetScout

Sniffer® Portable Professional User's Guide - NetScout Sniffer® Portable Professional User's Guide - NetScout

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Using the Address Book Overview 11 The address book lets you assign familiar, recognizable names for your network nodes. These symbolic names are used in place of six-byte hardware addresses and IP addresses in: Filter definitions The capture decode display The Expert display Host Table displays (both monitor and capture) Matrix displays (both monitor and capture) To create an address book to maintain a symbolic name table for your own network, you can: Entering Names Manually on page 252 Use the address book's autodiscovery feature Add names discovered by the Expert analyzer About Address Entries The Address Book allows you to define your network nodes in more-readable symbolic names. Sniffer Portable Professional uses the address book in filter definitions, the capture decode display, the Expert display, and the Host Tables to replace the 6 byte hardware address or network address of the network node with its respective symbolic name. An address book entry contains: Name Medium Hardware Address IP Address IPX Address Type User’s Guide 249

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