User Interface

3.10. The "Analyze" menu

The Ethereal Analyze menu contains the fields shown in Table 3.6, “Analyze menu items”.

Figure 3.8. The "Analyze" Menu

Table 3.6. Analyze menu items

Menu Item

 

Accelerator

Description

 

 

 

 

Display

Fil-

 

This menu item brings up a dialog box that allows you to create and edit

ters...

 

 

 

 

 

display filters. You can name filters, and you can save them for future

 

 

 

use. More detail on this subject is provided in Section 6.5, “Defining and

 

 

 

saving filters”

 

 

 

Apply as Filter

 

These menu items will change the current display filter and apply the

> ...

 

 

 

 

 

changed filter immediately. Depending on the chosen menu item, the cur-

 

 

 

rent display filter string will be replaced or appended to by the selected

 

 

 

protocol field in the packet details pane.

 

 

 

 

Prepare a

Fil-

 

These menu items will change the current display filter but won't apply

ter > ...

 

 

 

 

 

the changed filter. Depending on the chosen menu item, the current dis-

 

 

 

play filter string will be replaced or appended to by the selected protocol

 

 

 

field in the packet details pane.

 

 

 

 

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