Chapter 17, Annotated Traces, Expert Traces, and Decode Switches
OUI Interpretation
World Wide Names and MAC addresses contain a 24-bit Organization Unique Identifier (OUI).
This option selects to enable/disable the decoding of vendor names inside World Wide Names and
MAC addresses.
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Display OUI Vendor Names
This option enables the display of the vendor names. This is the default value.
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Display OUIs in Hexadecimal
This option disables the display of the vendor names. The 24-bit hexadecimal value is
displayed instead.
Brocade VE Port Frame Decoding
This switch is necessary to decode the frames on Brocades's VE Ports, which otherwise look like
random data.
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Disable VE Port Frame Decoding
This is the default behavior where we decode the standard Ethernet frames.
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Skip 8 bytes after DLC.Source
This option skips 8 bytes after the Ethernet Source field and then it decodes the EtherType,
according to the Brocade VE Port frame format.
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