User Interface

 

 

 

 

 

Menu Item

 

Accelerator

 

Description

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Packet Bytes

 

 

 

This menu item hides or shows the packet bytes pane, see Section 3.17,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“The "Packet Bytes" pane”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Time

 

Display

 

 

Selecting this tells Ethereal to display time stamps in time of day format,

Format > Time

 

 

of Day

 

 

 

 

see Section 6.9, “Time display formats and time references”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The fields "Time of Day", "Date and Time of Day",

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Seconds Since Beginning of Capture" and "Seconds Since

 

 

 

 

 

 

Previous Packet" are mutually exclusive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time

 

Display

 

 

Selecting this tells Ethereal to display the time stamps in date and time of

Format > Date

 

 

and

Time

of

 

 

day format, see Section 6.9, “Time display formats and time references”.

Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time

 

Display

 

 

Selecting this tells Ethereal to display time stamps in seconds since be-

Format

 

>

 

 

Seconds

Since

 

 

ginning of capture format, see Section 6.9, “Time display formats and

Beginning

of

 

 

time references”.

Capture

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time

 

Display

 

 

Selecting this tells Ethereal to display time stamps in seconds since previ-

Format

 

>

 

 

Seconds

Since

 

 

ous packet format, see Section 6.9, “Time display formats and time refer-

Previous Pack-

 

 

ences”.

et

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name

Resolu-

 

 

This item allows you to trigger a name resolve of the current packet only,

tion

>

Resolve

 

 

Name

 

 

 

 

see Section 7.4, “Name Resolution”.

 

 

 

 

 

Name

Resolu-

 

 

This item allows you to control whether or not Ethereal translates MAC

tion

>

Enable

 

 

for MAC Layer

 

 

addresses into names, see Section 7.4, “Name Resolution”.

 

 

 

 

 

Name

Resolu-

 

 

This item allows you to control whether or not Ethereal translates net-

tion

>

Enable

 

 

for

Network

 

 

work addresses into names, see Section 7.4, “Name Resolution”.

Layer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name

Resolu-

 

 

This item allows you to control whether or not Ethereal translates trans-

tion

>

Enable

 

 

for

Transport

 

 

port addresses into names, see Section 7.4, “Name Resolution”.

Layer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Colorize Packet

 

 

This item allows you to control wether or not Ethereal should colorize

List

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the packet list.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enabling colorization will slow down the display of new

 

 

 

 

 

 

packets while capturing / loading capture files.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Auto

Scroll

in

 

 

This item allows you to specify that Ethereal should scroll the packet list

Live Capture

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

pane as new packets come in, so you are always looking at the last pack-

 

 

 

 

 

 

et. If you do not specify this, Ethereal simply adds new packets onto the

 

 

 

 

 

 

end of the list, but does not scroll the packet list pane.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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