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Surveyor

User’s Guide

There are four station address types:

•MAC address – 12 hexadecimal digits. For example, 34FD34AA0001.

•IP dot notation address – 4 decimal numbers in the range of 0 to 255, separated by dots. For example, 12.235.96.2.

•IPX address – 20 hexadecimal digits (without port number) or 22 hexadecimal digits (with port number). For example, 34FD34AA0001000000A1.

•Atalk address - 2 decimal numbers separated by dots. The first can range from 0 to 65534 and the second from 0 to 255. For example 30234.123.

Note:

You will probably want to build a name table with the names and addresses of stations on your network. If you have a name table for your network, be sure to load the name table so names are available in the Name Table window.

If no value is entered for a Station Address field, all stations are captured. For exam- ple, if you set an address for Station 1, no address for Station 2, and set the direction to ->all packets having Station 1 as the Source Address are captured, regardless of the Destination Address.

Use wildcards when specifying addresses to capture data on more than one station. An X used as a character for an address string means that any value will be accepted for that position; for example, 343F4AXXXXXX.

Traffic Direction Indicator

The direction indicator allows you to select a direction between stations. You can filter for packets going from Station 1 to Station 2 (->), Station 2 to Station 1 (<-), or gather packets in either direction (<->).

Apply Conversation to Template Check Box

To apply the conversation to your filter, make sure that the Apply Conversation to Template check box is selected. Enabling the conversation will modify the data pat- terns used in the filter.

A single conversation is defined. If you want to use additional conversations, you can create an advanced filter or use wildcards as described above.

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