Statistics

8.5. Conversations

Statistics of the captured conversations.

8.5.1. What is a Conversation?

A network conversation is the traffic between two specific endpoints. For example, an IP conversa- tion is all the traffic between two IP addresses. The description of the known endpoint types can be found in Section 8.4.1, “What is an Endpoint?”.

8.5.2. The "Conversations" window

Beside the list content, the conversations window work the same way as the endpoint ones, see Sec- tion 8.4.2, “The "Endpoints" window” for a description how it works.

Figure 8.4. The "Conversations" window

8.5.3.The protocol specific "Conversation List" windows

Before the combined window described above was available, each of its pages were shown as separ- ate windows. Even though the combined window is much more convenient to use, these separate windows are still available. The main reason is, they might process faster for very large capture files. However, as the functionality is exactly the same as in the combined window, they won't be discussed in detail here.

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