Protocol hierarchy

Next we'll look at protocol hierarchy. You need to click on Statistics and go to Protocol Hierarchy:

It will give you a breakdown based on the percentages of the packets of the most popular protocols that it saw:

As you can see at the beginning, everything that came in was a Frame. Everything that came in that Frame was an Ethernet frame. And then within that, we have a breakdown of what's within Ethernet. So we have some Internet Protocol Version 6; we have a whole bunch of Internet Protocol Version 4, and a little bit of ...

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