Upper Pane (Physical Conversation List)
Lower Pane (Relating tabs)The Physical Conversation tab provides you with MAC address conversation statistics. Each single conversation record has its source MAC address, destination MAC address, packets sent and received, packet sizes and communication duration, etc. This tab contains the following components:
This tab is visible only when you select a MAC address item in Physical Explorer or protocol item below the IP layer in Protocol Explorer of the Node Explorer window.
The Physical Conversation List contains the following parts:
The following table lists all the items on the toolbar:
| Export | Click to export all of the physical conversation statistics to a *.txt format file. |
| Detail | Click to show or hide the lower pane. |
| Add to Filter | Click to open the Packet Filter dialog to make a new filter based on the selection in this pane. |
| Refresh | Click to refresh the physical conversation list or set the refresh options. |
| Physical Conversation Counter | Shows the number of all physical conversation in the list. |
Right-click a column header, you can select more columns to show in the list. Choose Default to get showing columns back to default.
The following table lists all the menu items in the list:
| Packets in New Window | Sends the packets relating to the selected node to a new packet decode window. |
| Copy | Copies the selection in original format to the clipboard. |
| Copy Column | Copies the selected column in original format to the clipboard. |
| Customize Column | Shows/hides columns or changes the position of columns. |
| Export Conversation Statistics | Saves all of the physical conversations statistics to disk as a *.txt format file. |
| Find... | Finds an item in the list. |
| Make Filter... | Opens a new dialog to make a new filter on the basis of the selection. |
| Address Resolve... | Resolves the host name of your selected address item. This item is grayed out, for MAC address does not have a host name. |
| Add to Name Table | Add an alias for the selected node to the Name Table. |
| Make Graph | Generates a graph in the Dashboard tab based on the selected item. |
| Make Alarm | Generates an alarm item based on the selected item. |
| Locate in Node Explorer | Locates one of the MAC address of the selected conversation in the Node Explorer window. |
| Send Packet to Packet Builder | Sends the selected packets to the build-in tool Packet Builder. |
| Select All | Selects all items in the list. |
| Refresh | Refreshes the current list. |
There are three tabs in the lower pane: IP Conversation, TCP Conversation and UDP Conversation. Your selection in the Node Explorer window and the selection in the protocol list will be like filters to get more small items in the bottom tabs. These tabs will save your time and clicks to find the statistics you need.
Read the IP Conversation, TCP Conversation and UDP Conversation to learn detailed descriptions of these tabs.
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