Data Flow Tab

A TCP conversation contains many packets. Colasoft Capsa organizes these packets in their correct orders and reconstructs these packets into a TCP flow. The conversations of Web (HTTP), Email (SMTP/POP3), FTP and MSN, etc can be reconstructed. The data streams of different directions can be distinguished by colors, e.g. blue is for endpoint 1 to endpoint 2, green is for endpoint 2 to endpoint 1. The Data Flow contains the following parts:

You may get unreadable symbols because some data are segments or encrypted in transmission.

Toolbar

The following table lists all the items on the toolbar:

Flow Direction Click to choose one of the three direction types: Bidirectional, Node 1 to Node 2 and Node 2 to Node 1, to display flow of both directions, flow from Node 1 to Node 2 or flow from Node 2 to Node 1.
Show Packet Count Limit in Each Flow By default, only the first 50 packets of a conversation are displayed. You can choose a larger value to display more data if a conversation has more packets than 50.
Save Click to save the content to disk as a *.txt format file.
Refresh Click to refresh the flow content or set the refresh options.
Packet Counter Shows the number of packets in the conversation.

Context Menu

The following table lists all the menu items of this tab:

Copy Copies the selected content to the clipboard.
Line Wrap Auto-wraps texts longer than the width of the pane.
Charter Set Chooses a decoding format to view content of packets.
Find Finds your entry word in the pane.
Find Next Finds next result of your entry.
Select All Selects the whole content.
Refresh Refreshes the flow content.

Still, you can read Time Sequence to get more help on TCP conversation analysis.

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