4.2 General Configuration
The general configuration page contains various common settings.
Note that the Logging area is not present on a replayer;
click here for logging setup.
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- Name
This shows the sniffer or replayer name. Any
change made to this field takes effect when the Set
button is clicked.
- Interface
On a sniffer this field is a combo box, and allows the
selection of a network interface. For a replayer it shows
the interface used, and cannot be changed.
- Snap Len
This field specifies how much data is actually grabbed off the
network for each packet. The default is 68, which is
sufficient to cover all normal packet header information. If you
want to look inside the packets then this will need to be much
larger.
- Select Plugins
Click this button to display a list of available
dynamic plugins; select those
required, and click OK.
- Select Plugins
Click this button to remove loaded
dynamic plugins; select those
required, and click OK.
- Parallel Display
Setting this checkbox will display a network load histogram on the
parallel display page.
- Save Configuration
By default, the menu Save function saves the setup of all
sniffers (both local and remote). Clearing this checkbox will
prevent this particular sniffer setup from being saved.
- Packet Monitor
The six checkboxes in this area are used to control which columns
are displayed on the packet display
page. If none are checked then the packet display page is
disabled; this is useful when monitoring a heavily loaded network
where display update would cause a prohibitively high load on the
CPU.
- Graphic Display
The Histogram spin control sets the interval, in seconds,
at which the network load and packet count histograms on the
graphic display shift. The two
Bar spin boxes set the time average periods for the load
bars on the graphic display page, again in seconds.
Note:When using a remote sniffer, it is not sensible to sniff
an interface with a filter which can see the network packets which
pass data from the remote sniffer back to ksnuffle. To do so will
result in a positive feedback loop, and essentially unlimited
network load.
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