Examining Captured Data

In the Network Monitor Frame Viewer window, you can view individual frames in detail by double-clicking any frame. By examining the constituent parts of a frame, you can learn, for example, whether the frame was broadcast or directed and which properties are associated with each part of the frame. You can also discover which protocols the frame was using and where the frame originated and why it was sent.

When you double-click a frame, the Frame Viewer window splits into three panes. The top pane is the Summary pane, which displays general information about the captured frames in the order that they were captured. The frame that you have selected to examine is highlighted in the Summary pane. To examine another frame, scroll to it and then click it. The middle pane is the Detail pane, which parses the network frame data and displays the individual layers in more detail. You can expand or collapse the details of each layer by clicking the plus (+) and minus (-) symbols in the Detail frame. The bottom pane is the Hex pane, which displays the frame data in hexadecimal and ASCII format.

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