Why is it 0 under packets and changes for transport B to A when Address B is Broadcast?

asked 2020-07-21 18:27:54 +0000

Alundqvi
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If we click on Statistics and then Conversations. The window that opens shows conversations between different units during collection. Why is it 0 under packets and changes for transport B to A when Address B is Broadcast?

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Which Conversation Type (tab at top) are you looking at?

Chuckc ( 2020-07-21 19:06:17 +0000 )edit

Hey, Thanks for your reply. Under the tab at the top "Statistics" You find "Conversations". If we look at "Ethernet" > Adress B Packets B > A then we find it 0 for all Broadcast adresses and my question is why is it 0?

Alundqvi ( 2020-07-21 19:11:17 +0000 )edit

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answered 2020-07-21 19:17:59 +0000

Chuckc
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When a device responds to a broadcast frame, the source address is it's MAC address.
So there will not be any packets where the source address (B->) is ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff.

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Oh yeah, that what I was looking for. Thanks a lot for the quick reply.

Alundqvi ( 2020-07-21 19:21:59 +0000 )edit

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