10.Click Continue Anyway. Network Instruments has tested and verified that the driver works correctly with Probe and Observer on Windows XP.
11.After the wizard finishes installing the driver, Click Finish to close the confirmation dialog.
12.Repeat these same steps for updating the 10/100 NIC. When asked to specify a location for the driver, enter (or browse to) this path (assuming C:\Observer Files is your Observer directory):
c:\observer files\drivers\intel21143\win2000
13.Click through the rest of the wizard as you did for the 10/100 driver. After you click Finish... on the last dialog, the custom driver installation is complete.
Configuring Ports Into Logical Links
You must define the physical ports on the WAN interface card or cards into logical links. Each WAN interface card includes 1, 2 or 4 physical ports. By using the WAN Driver Configuration tool to define logical links consisting of 1 or more ports, you will be able to:
•in the case of links with more than one port, obtain a cumulative view of statistics from more than one port
•in all cases, create meaningful names that you will see in the Observer probe list.
A good situation in which to view multiple ports as a single link is in the case of a pair of
Starting the Configuration Utility
Before you start the configuration utility, make sure you have closed Observer and shut down any Network Instruments Probe instances that may be running.
Click onThe configuration tool scans the system for NI WAN interface cards, displaying them in the order they are physically installed in the bus. Each card is identified by bus and device
#(displayed at the top of the card), and the number of the physical slot the card occupies in the PC bus.
The ports on each card are listed under the card ID label, along with any logical links the port is associated with. If this is the first time the utility has been run, (or you have
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