

This capture is the same type of capture I used in the post “ Using jperf and Wireshark to troubleshoot network issues“. To begin with, I ran a jperf session between a client and a server and used Wireshark to capture the packets. This can assist you in seeing whether there are any issues on the network such as dropped frames, timeouts or dropped connections. This post is about another nice feature of Wireshark, namely, the flow graph. I posted a few weeks ago about using Wireshark to inspect packets on your network.

Scott Reeves demonstrates the flow graph feature of the Wireshark tool, which can help you check connections between client server, finding timeouts, re-transmitted frames, or dropped connections. Using the flow graph feature on Wireshark
