Benefits of Packet Monitor

The packet monitor feature provides the functionality and flexibility that you need to examine network traffic without the use of external utilities, such as Wireshark (formerly known as Ethereal). Packet monitor includes the following features:

• Control mechanism with improved granularity for custom filtering (Monitor Filter)
• Display filter settings independent from monitor filter settings
• Packet status indicates if the packet was dropped, forwarded, generated, or consumed by the firewall
• Three output displays in the management interface:
  • List of packets
  • Decoded output of selected packet
  • Hexadecimal dump of selected packet
• Export capabilities include text or HTML format with hex dump of packets, plus CAP file formats, pcap and pcapNG
• Automatic export to FTP server when the buffer is full
• Bidirectional packet monitor based on IP address and port
• Configurable wrap-around of packet monitor buffer when full