What are Packet Captures - A Brief Introduction to Packet Captures Packet capture is a activity of capturing data packets crossing networking devices There are 2 types - Partial packet capture and Deep packet capture
Partial packet capture just record headers without recording content of datagrams, used for basic troubleshooting upto L4 Deep packet capture will give us everything that a packet can tell, doing a deep packet analysis is like investigating in a forensic lab, it is used in advanced troubleshooting like troubleshooting at L7, troubleshooting for performance related issues, traffic patterns etc There are 2 ways of looking at traffic coming to any device, either collect captures on the ingress of the device or collect captures on the egress interface of the device behind the device in question.
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