Capture Window

What is Capture Windows (in computer networking)?

In Microsoft Network Monitor, the window that displays the statistics about the frames being captured on a network. The capture window displays four kinds of real-time statistics concerning the traffic that an administrator captures using Network Monitor:

• Graph statistics:
  A graphical representation of current network activity that shows the percent of network utilization, frames captured per second, bytes captured per second, and broadcasts or multicasts captured per second

   

• Session statistics:
  Information about current sessions between computers on the network, showing which hosts have sent packets to each other

   

• Station statistics:
  Information about various stations involved in sending or receiving packets, showing how many of each type of packet they have sent or received

   

• Total statistics:
  Summary statistics about network activity since the capture began, showing the number of frames, bytes, frames dropped, and so on during the capture