Adding Unlisted Network Card Vendor ID to Network Monitor

This article was previously published under Q148647

Network card vendors have 6-digit prefixes pre-pended to the network card MAC address. Do one of the following to obtain the MAC address for your network card:

• From a Windows NT Command Prompt, type the following:

  ipconfig /all

  -or-
• On a NetWare server, type the following:

  config

  -or-
• Look at the documentation that is included with the network card.

Approximately 650 vendor ID numbers are stored internally in Network Monitor. To add a new or unlisted vendor, you must modify the NETMON.INI file in the <SMS Root>\Netmon\<platform> directory. The following is a sample [Vendor_IDS] section in NETMON.INI:

   [Vendor_IDS]

   VID0= 002211, <New card 1>
   VID1= 002222, <New card 2>
   NumberIDs = 2
		

NOTE: The length of <New card 1> and <New card 2> must be no greater than 6 characters.