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Figure 149: Skip Duplicate Packets Using Hardware Accelerated Capture
Adapter
6. (Optional) Select how duplicate packets are recognized by the Gen3 capture
card and click OK .
Example: (Optional) For example, by selecting Examine IP time to live
(TTL) , the packet time to live is considered when determining a duplicate
packet. If the option is cleared, TTL is ignored for all consideration of what is,
and what is not, a duplicate packet.
7. Click OK to enable packet deduplication.
The Gen3 capture card now skips duplicate packets that it receives on the active
instance. The duplicate packets will not be saved to disk or acknowledged by
Observer.
How to assign physical ports to probe instances
By default, the active instance monitors network traffic from every physical port
of your capture card—all the traffic is aggregated. If you want to instead “divide”
your monitored network traffic by physical ports, to help you monitor certain