User Interface
3.9. The "Capture" menu
The Ethereal Capture menu contains the fields shown in Table 3.5, “Capture menu items”.
Figure 3.7. The "Capture" Menu
Table 3.5. Capture menu items
Menu Item | Accelerator | Description |
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Interfaces... |
| This menu item brings up a dialog box that shows what's going on at the |
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| network interfaces Ethereal knows of, see Section 4.4, “The "Capture In- |
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| terfaces" dialog box”) . |
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Options... | Ctrl+K | This menu item brings up the Capture Options dialog box (discussed fur- |
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| ther in Section 4.5, “The "Capture Options" dialog box”) and allows you |
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| to start capturing packets. |
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Start |
| Immediately start capturing packets with the same settings than the last |
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| time. |
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Stop | Ctrl+E | This menu item stops the currently running capture, see Section 4.9.1, |
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| “Stop the running capture”) . |
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Restart |
| This menu item stops the currently running capture and starts again with |
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| the same options, this is just for convenience. |
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