Address Tracking Information

The Address Tracking Information Menu provides per port based node tracking capability (MAC address based). This capability provides the basic traffic analysis function to diagnose network problems, such as Intrusion. The node tracking function records the source MAC of each data packet and provides the filters for data analysis.

Address Tracking Menu

Source Address Changes:

This counter is incremented by one

for each time that the Last Source Address for this port changes. This may indicate whether a link is connected to a single device or another multi-user segment. The approximate minimum time for roll-over of this counter is 81 hours.

Last Source

Address: Indicates the Source MAC Address of the

last readable frame received by this port. If this port has

received no frames since the hub began monitoring the port

activity, a null string displays.

Source MAC

Address T racking List: A list of source MAC

addresses that were recently received on this port. The first

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