Chapter 3 Windows and Menus
NI-FBUS Monitor User Manual 3-10 ni.com
Packet View
You can use the packet view to display and manipulate data packets.
This view is the main medium of interaction between you and the capture
document. To select the packet view, click the Packets tab at the bottom
left of the filter window, or select Packet View from the View menu.
Figure 3-5 shows the filter window in packet view.
Figure 3-5. Filter Window and Captured Data in Packet View
Packet Display Formats
Packet data can be in one of three formats: simple, decode, or hex.
All formats have the same header, which follows:
(*/#)PACKET_NUMBER - TIME(HH:MM:SS.US) LENGTH - SIZE
An asterisk (*) next to a packet indicates that a packet prior to that packet
is missing. The asterisk indicates that, after several attempts, the monitor
on the fieldbus interface could not pass the packet to the host application
(the NI-FBUS Monitor). This problem might happen on slow PCs. If you