Sniffer® Portable Professional User's Guide - NetScout

Chapter 11
Description
250 Sniffer Portable Professional
NOTE: The address book can contain a maximum of 5,000 entries.
Sniffer Portable Professional uses only the medium, hardware address,
IP/IPX address, and Type fields. The other fields are only informational.
The Medium field can also be thought of as a topology field - it
refers to the type of network entity for which you are creating an
Address Book entry. The Medium field tells Sniffer Portable
Professional on what types of networks it should look for this
Address Book entry.
The Medium field also determines the type of HW Address you can
enter. For example, if you set Medium to Ethernet, blanks are
provided in the HW Address field for you to enter a standard
Ethernet hardware address in hexadecimal format.
The Type selections are Workstation, Server, File Server, Printer
Server, Router, Bridge, Hub, Access Point, and Mobile Unit. The
Type field is mainly used when exporting the MAC addresses of
access points to the Expert's list of known access points.
The Description field is a text field in which you can write your own
description or notes about the node.
Creating Address Book Entries
You create an address book to maintain a symbolic names table for your
own network. To create entries in the address book, you can enter
names manually or automatically discover names with the address
book’s autodiscovery feature.
To create an address book entry:
1 Select Address Book from the Tools menu or click in the
main toolbar.
2 Click the right mouse button to display the context menu.
3 Click New Address to open the New/Edit Address dialog box.
4 Enter the Name, Medium, HW Address, IP Address and/or IPX
Address. If the entry is a router, select Router for the Type. (This
prevents duplicate address alarms during address autodiscovery.)
Other entries are for user reference only. Sniffer Portable
Professional does not interpret them.