Does Network Monitor capture all packets all the time?
A.: No sniffing software can guarantee that, because network cards are typically faster to deliver the packets than hard disks are to write them out. Therefore, to increase the odds of capturing all the packets on a heavy traffic network, you should always use a dedicated system with the fastest possible hard disk and the fastest possible CPU. At the completion of a capture session, Network Monitor will show you the number and percentage of packets captured.
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