Lucent Technologies Ethereal manual Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Preface	viii
1. Foreword	viii
2. Who should read this document?	ix
3. Acknowledgements	x
4. About this document	xi
5. Where to get the latest copy of this document?	xii
6. Providing feedback about this document	xiii
1. Introduction	1
1.1. What is Ethereal?	1
1.1.1. Some intended purposes	1
1.1.2. Features	1
1.1.3. Live capture from many different network media	2
1.1.4. Import files from many other capture programs	2
1.1.5. Export files for many other capture programs	2
1.1.6. Many protocol decoders	2
1.1.7. Open Source Software	2
1.1.8. What Ethereal is not	3
1.2. Platforms Ethereal runs on	4
1.2.1. Unix	4
1.2.2. Linux	4
1.2.3. Microsoft Windows	5
1.3. Where to get Ethereal?	6
1.4. A rose by any other name	7
1.5. A brief history of Ethereal	8
1.6. Development and maintenance of Ethereal	9
1.7. Reporting problems and getting help	10
1.7.1. Website	10
1.7.2. Wiki	10
1.7.3. FAQ	10
1.7.4. Mailing Lists	10
1.7.5. Reporting Problems	11
1.7.6. Reporting Crashes on UNIX/Linux platforms	11
1.7.7. Reporting Crashes on Windows platforms	12
2. Building and Installing Ethereal	14
2.1. Introduction	14
2.2. Obtaining the source and binary distributions	15
2.3. Before you build Ethereal under UNIX	16
2.4. Building Ethereal from source under UNIX	19
2.5. Installing the binaries under UNIX	21
2.5.1. Installing from rpm's under RedHat and alike	21
2.5.2. Installing from deb's under Debian	21
2.6. Troubleshooting during the install on Unix	22
2.7. Building from source under Windows	23
2.8. Installing Ethereal under Windows	24
2.8.1. Install Ethereal	24
2.8.2. Install WinPcap	25
2.8.3. Update Ethereal	26
2.8.4. Update WinPcap	26
2.8.5. Uninstall Ethereal	26
2.8.6. Uninstall WinPcap	27
3. User Interface	29
3.1. Introduction	29
3.2. Start Ethereal	30
3.3. The Main window	31
3.4. The Menu	33
3.5. The "File" menu	34
3.6. The "Edit" menu	37

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