Lucent Technologies Ethereal manual Function overview of the pop-up menus

Working with captured packets

Figure 6.2. Viewing a packet in a separate window

Finally, you can bring up a pop-up menu over either the "Packet List", "Packet Details" or "Packet Bytes" pane by clicking your right mouse button.

The following table gives an overview which functions are available in the panes, where to find the corresponding function in the menu, and a short description of each item.

Table 6.1. Function overview of the pop-up menus

Item		Lis	De-	Byt	Menu	Description
		t	tail	es
			s
Mark	Packet	X	-	-	Edit	Mark a packet.
(toggle)
Time Reference		X	-	-	Edit	Set/reset and find time references.
Expand Subtrees		-	X	-	View	Expand the currently selected subtree.
Expand All		-	X	-	View	Expand all subtrees in all packets in the capture.
Collapse All		-	X	-	View	Ethereal keeps a list of all the protocol subtrees that are
						expanded, and uses it to ensure that the correct subtrees
						are expanded when you display a packet. This menu
						item collapses the tree view of all packets in the capture
						list.
Apply as Filter		X	X	-	Analyze	.
Prepare a Filter		X	X	-	Analyze	.
Follow	TCP	X	X	-	Analyze	View all the data on a TCP stream between a pair of
stream
						nodes.
Wiki	Protocol	-	X	-	-	Show the wiki page corresponding to the currently se-
Page
						lected protocol in your web browser.
Filter Field Ref-		-	X	-	-	Show the filter field reference web page corresponding
erence
						to the currently selected protocol in your web browser.
Protocol	Prefer-	-	X	-	-	The menu item takes you to the preferences dialog and
ences...
						selects the page corresponding to the protocol if there
						are settings associated with the highlighted field. More
						information on preferences can be found in Section 9.5,

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