Physical Conversation view

The Physical Conversation view shows statistics of the network traffic on the basis of MAC address conversations, to help you know the traffic status between MAC addresses of the network.

The Physical Conversation view will not be available when you select IP address nodes on the Physical Explorer or any nodes on the IP Explorer.

You can double-click any item in the conversation list to view detailed packet information in the Packet window which is named with the conversation and is just the same as the Packet view (See Packet view for more information).

Toolbar

The following table lists and describes the items on the toolbar of this view.

Item Description
Exports current conversation list as a .csv file.
Makes a packet filter based on the node of selected conversation. See Creating Filters for details.
Refreshes the conversation list or sets display refresh interval by clicking the little triangle. If the interval is set to Manually Refresh, display will update only when the Refresh button is clicked.
Displays particular items of the list. See Display Filter for details.
Shows the number of the conversations in the list. The name changes along with the selection in the Node Explorer window.

Physical Conversation columns

By right-clicking the column header, you can specify which columns to show in the list. Choose Default to show default columns and choose More to open Display Column dialog box to set which columns to show and to set the position, the alignment and the width of the column. See Conversation columns for details.

Pop-up menu

Right-click the conversation list on this view to get a pop-up menu with items as follows:

Item Description
Packet Details Views the decoding information of the packets of the conversation in the Packet window which is just the same as the Packet view (See Packet view for more information).
Copy Copies the selection and the header row in original format to the clipboard.
Copy Column Copies the selected column in original format to the clipboard.
Display Column Shows or hides columns or changes the position of columns. This command is just the same as right-clicking the column header.
Export Conversation Statistics Saves current list as a .csv file.
Find Calls out Find dialog box to search only in the conversation list.
Make FilterMakes a packet filter based on the node of selected conversation. See Creating Filters for details.
Resolve Address Not available in this view.
Add to Name Table Adds an alias to the Name Table for the node of selected conversation. See Name Table for details.
Make Graph Makes a graph in the Dashboard view on the basis of the node of selected conversation. See Creating Graphs for details.
Make Alarm Makes an alarm on the basis of the node of selected conversation. See Creating Alarms for details.
Locate in Node Explorer Locates the selected node in the Node Explorer window.
Select All Selects all items in the conversation list.
Refresh Refreshes the conversation list.
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