Capturing Live Network Data
... after n minute(s) | Stop | capturing | after | the | given | number | of |
| second(s)/minutes(s)/hours(s)/days(s) have elapsed. |
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4.5.4. Display Options frame
Update list | This option allows you to specify that Ethereal should update the packet list pane in |
of packets | real time. If you do not specify this, Ethereal does not display any packets until you |
in real | stop the capture. When you check this, Ethereal captures in a separate process and |
time | feeds the captures to the display process. |
Automatic | This option allows you to specify that Ethereal should scroll the packet list pane as |
scrolling in | new packets come in, so you are always looking at the last packet. If you do not spe- |
live cap- | cify this, Ethereal simply adds new packets onto the end of the list, but does not scroll |
ture | the packet list pane. This option is greyed out if "Update list of packets in real time" |
| is disabled. |
Hide cap- If this option is checked, the following capture info dialog will be hidden. ture info
dialog
4.5.5. Name Resolution frame
Enable MAC name resolution This option allows you to control whether or not Ethereal translates MAC addresses into names, see Section 7.4, “Name Resolution”.
Enable network name resolution This option allows you to control whether or not Ethereal translates network addresses into names, see Section 7.4, “Name Resolution”.
Enable transport name resolu- This option allows you to control whether or not Ethereal
tiontranslates transport addresses into protocols, see Section 7.4, “Name Resolution”.
4.5.6. Buttons
Once you have set the values you desire and have selected the options you need, simply click on OK to commence the capture, or Cancel to cancel the capture.
If you start a capture, Ethereal allows you to stop capturing when you have enough packets cap- tured, for details see Section 4.9, “While a Capture is running ...”.
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