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Name Table

When you start capture, the nodes in your network will be automatically identified and displayed by their logical or physical addresses in the Project Explorer and tab views. The Name Table lets you create and edit the alternate name for physical addresses, IP addresses and ports.

This chapter explains how to assign your own symbolic names to make packet-related information easy for recognition.

You can add alias to the name table from the Project Explorer dock window or tab views.

• Add from the Project Explorer dock window
  Select a node and the Add to Name Table... command from the context menu with a right click, then make alias and set color in the opened dialog.
  
  
  
  
• Add from tab views
  You can make alias in all tab views except the Summary view, Protocols view and Graph view. Highlight a row and right click, select the Add to Name Table command and a type from the context menu, in the opened dialog give a new name to the selected item, you may also alter its color. Once you click OK to save the settings all the packets matching to your selection will be showed with the new name and color.
  
  One packet may involve multiple aliases because you can alter the name for physical addresses, IP addresses and ports, e.g. office1 for source IP and office2 for destination IP.
  
  

Name table window

The Name Table window lets you insert, edit, delete or find alias. To open the Name Table window, click the Tools menu and select Name Table, or just click the icon  from toolbar. In the Name Table window, you can view alias for physical addresses, IP addresses and ports.

This window offers the following commands:

The alias records in the Name Table window are able to be printed, you may have
a preview by the command in the File menu. To switch between the Name Table window and project windows, just open the Window menu and make a selection.