Choosing Network Adapter

Colasoft Capsa captures packets from adapters of your machine. If you want to start a Capture analysis project, you need to choose at least one adapter from the Network Adapter list.

You can open the Network Adapter dialog through the following:

• Click the Adapter icon on the Analysis tab of the Ribbon (figure below).

Change source adapters during a project will restart the capture.

The Network Adapter dialog appears as follows:

Colasoft Capsa supports Ethernet Card and multiple adapters. You can analyze and monitor network from more than one adapters.

The Network Adapter dialog contains the following two parts:

• Network Adapter List
  Colasoft Capsa identifies all adapters in your machine and reads information: Name, IP address and speed, etc. of all adapters. Also it counts and works out packet number, byte, pps, bps and utilization of the selected adapter.
  
• Utilization of the selected adapter
  On selecting an adapter, the Utilization of the selected adapter graph refreshes every second to display the adapter's traffic utilization. Move mouse over the pane, you can check the adapter's traffic to help to understand the traffic trend and peak.