PROTOCOL MONITOR

摘要

A protocol monitor (120) provides the ability to allow a user interface to be updated with protocol status and event information. For monitoring the behavior of a protocol contained with a network frame, network frames are filtered according to which protocol is being monitored. Next, the protocol knowledge of the data structure of the network frame is retrieved by a protocol decoder (112). This enables the extraction of a field contained with a protocol data unit of the network frame which is needed to monitor the protocol behavior. A value is extracted from the field and represented by a keyword. This value is used to update the protocol status or protocol events on the user interface.