NS3000/iX NMMGR Screens Reference Manual - Edition 8 (36922-90038)

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Network Directory

What a Network Directory Provides

request for an internet address from the proxy server. For backup

purposes, you should designate at least two nodes on a LAN to be proxy

servers.

A node is conﬁgured as a proxy server in the Probe Protocol

Conﬁguration screen, (path name

NETXPORT.NI.

NIname

.PROTOCOL.PROBE).

Path Report Lists

A path report is an internal structure containing all conﬁgured paths to

a given IP address in the internet. The path report list is a list of all

path reports in a network directory. Each path report contains the

protocol stacks that the data must pass through to get to a given IP

address. An example of a path report where the protocol stack contains

TCP with checksum error checking (level 4) over IP (level 3i) over

IEEE 802.3 (level 2), is indicated in the following format:

TCP.IP.IEEE802.3

In the network directory, IP addresses must be unique so that a single

path report can be identiﬁed.