Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] wireshark dropping packets? wireshark for xandros?

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 14, 2009, at 10:15 PM, Condor Kim wrote:

> hi thanks guy. but where on the status bar is the function that  
> shows how many, if any, packets are  being dropped while capture is  
> going on?

At least in Wireshark 1.x, the status bar has three sections:

	the section on the left has "File:" followed by the name of the  
capture file - which will be a temporary file for a live capture:

	the section in the middle has packet counts - if you make the window  
wide enough, it will show all the counts:

		Packets: {N} Displayed: {M} Marked: {K} Dropped: {X}

	where N is the number of captured packets, M is the number of those  
packets being displayed (which might be less than N if you have a  
packet filter), K is the number of them that you have "marked", and X  
is the number that were dropped while capturing;

	the section on the right indicates which "profile" is active (which  
might just be the default).