Agilent Technologies N2610A Snmp Query, Locate Switch Port, MAC Loop-back, Traffic Generation

8Network Performance Analyzer Reference

Network Tools

Remote device IP address The remote device may be selected from a list or entered as a name or IP address. If the device is specified by a name, DNS and WINS are used to translate the name into an IP address.

Maximum Hop Count The maximum number of routers to traverse while tracing out the route.

SNMP Query

This tool uses SNMP to retrieve the following information from the device. This information is usually provided by IT services.

•MIB II System Group

•System description

•Up time

•Contact

•System name

•Location

Locate Switch Port

This tool is used to determine the switch port to which a device is connected. SNMP is used to look for switches in the network. Each of these switches are probed to see if the device shows up in the switch’s tables. All of the switch ports which are mapped to the devices MAC address are displayed. There is no order to the list for multiple results, so you cannot interpret the results as a direct path.

MAC Loop-back

The MAC Loop-back tool measures frame loss, delay and delay variations across an Ethernet network. The test requires the use of a remote FrameScope connected through hubs or switches.

This test does not work across routers.

Traffic Generation

A hardware based traffic generation tool is provided to enable network testing under heavily loaded conditions. Hardware-based timers control the transmission of the user specified frames into the network.

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