From the course: Wireshark: Network Troubleshooting
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Creating a flow graph - Wireshark Tutorial
From the course: Wireshark: Network Troubleshooting
Creating a flow graph
- [Instructor] While doing troubleshooting, there are a couple other tools within the Statistics, one being a flow graph. Now, a flow graph helps us take a look at the exchange of data. We can visualize normal traffic along with possible issues with a connection. But within the Statistics, there's also protocol-specific statistics that we can run as well. Let's take a look. I'm in smallFlows, and there's a lot going on on this. So, this will give us something to look at, but with dropdown Statistics, we'll start with DHCP. And, as you can see, BOOTP statistics, which is the way it was referred to. It's now just DHCP if you're doing a filter. Now, open this up, and here you can see the different message types that are within this. And this gives you the number of the packets in the count. For example, if you're having clients complain that they're not getting an IP address, you might want to run this quickly just to…
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