What is the best way to interpret %s in the Protocol Tab of Packetyzer?
The figures represent the percentage of protocol traffic in the packet capture. They may or may not total up to 100%. The reasons for this are padding of Ethernet frames, and nesting of protocols. Ethernet padding will add data that can’t be defined as a protocol. You can see this in the “Trailer” section of some of the packets in the Decode tab. The nesting of protocols can make the percentage exceed 100%. For example, protocol x is 60% of the total traffic in a capture. Within protocol x is protocol y which as a total equals 30% of the traffic in the capture. The two protocols would be displayed as 90% of the traffic, and could make the sum total of all the protocols in the capture greater than 100%.
