What are auto inserted nodes (n/a in IP View)?
With Ethernet on one physical wire can attach any two devices. When Intravue scans a network if finds all the port for MAC information available. An extreme example would be a network with no managed switches. In this case Intravue would not find any devices (MAC addresses) being claimed by any switches. Physically all these devices can not be directly connected to the Intravue host computer. Intravue reasons that there must be SOMETHING between the host and all these devices. An auto-inserted node represents that device – it could be an unmanaged switch, a hub, a managed switch with an unknown community, devices on the other side of a router, …. Another example would be a single managed switch removed from the host computer by several layers of hubs/unmanaged switches. In this case all the devices further away from Intravue will be shown on the ports of the managed switch. All the devices ‘closer’ to the Intravue host will be reported on the uplink port of the managed switch. Since
