Microsoft DirectX 8.0 (C++) |
The Microsoft® DirectPlay® protocol stack has three basic layers.
By installing the DirectPlay parsers, you can use Netmon to analyze the network traffic as it passes through any of these four layers. You can see all DirectPlay traffic by selecting the service provider parser. However, by selecting one of the higher level parsers, you can filter out traffic that may not be of interest.
With the transport layer parser, you see all voice and session traffic, but not low-level traffic such as connection handshaking. Be aware that the transport layer breaks messages that are longer than the network's Maximum Transfer Unit (MTU) into one or more fragments.
The session and voice layer parsers allow you to analyze session and voice-related traffic separately. Both of these parsers are aware of fragmentation, and notify the user, but cannot parse fragmented packets.