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4.7 Packet Display

The packet display shows details of each captured and filtered packet. Up to six columns of infornation can be displayed, as selected from the common configuration page.

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Below the main display are shown the total number of accepted packets, and the total network traffic and data in bytes. These apply to the total time for which the sniffer or replayer has been running.

Double-clicking on a packet brings up a packet details display. Alternatively, right-clicking brings up a menu containing a Show Details item and, if the packet contains TCP/IP data, an option to show the contents of the TCP/IP data stream.

Since the update of this page can present a serious load on the processor, it is paused if the number of packets received in a second exceeds a certain value, and remains paused until the number of packets has fallen below this value for some number of seconds. During this time the bottom-most line of the list will contain periods and Paused will be shown in the status bar. The packet count and reset time values can be set on the global setup page.

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