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I work for a small company as a network administrator. There’s no doubt I’m the person who is responsible for the security of network. Despite those complicated network problems, I’m sure many network admins have the same headache as me. When network problems occur and the internet could not work as usual, absolutely we are the persons to be blame first. We must try to find out the source of the problems as soon as possible. This is why we need a network sniffer to monitor our network. With the limited budget, I search on the internet, and finally I found Colasoft Capsa. I just download a free trail to see if it really works as is said.

Now, I have being using it for more than two weeks, and I found it is quite easy to use. The function of Capsa is not what I’m going to talk about in this article, because it may cost a dayJ Here I’m going to share with you a small but quite useful setting-Add physical group in network.

First, we open Settings, and click network, and click add:

Then write down the group name and the IP ranges of this group:

Well, it’s done, we can see it in the Explore:

In conclusion, with this setting, it’s very convenient to see the traffic of any specific group or department in our company. If you want to do that, just follow the above steps. Hope you enjoy this article!