Agilent Technologies N2610A - Manual (Page 214)

206 Agilent FrameScope 350 User’s Manual
8 Network 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.