Figure 6.5, “pop-up menu of, Packet bytes" pane – Lucent Technologies Ethereal User Manual

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Expand Subtrees

This menu item expands the currently selected subtree.

Expand All

This menu item expands all subtrees in all packets in the cap-
ture.

Collapse All

Ethereal keeps a list of all the protocol subtrees that are ex-
panded, and uses it to ensure that the correct subtrees are ex-
panded when you display a packet. This menu item collapses
the tree view of all packets in the capture list.

Apply as Filter

This menu item is the same as the Analyze menu items of the
same name.

Prepare a Filter

This menu item is the same as the Analyze menu items of the
same name.

Follow TCP Stream

This menu item is the same as the Analyze menu item of the
same name. It allows you to view all the data on a TCP
stream between a pair of nodes.

Wiki Protocol Page

Show the wiki page corresponding to the currently selected
protocol in your web browser.

Filter Field Reference

Show the filter field reference web page corresponding to the
currently selected protocol in your web browser.

Protocol Properties...

The menu item takes you to the properties dialog and selects
the page corresponding to the protocol if there are properties
associated with the highlighted field. More information on
preferences can be found in

Figure 9.8, “The preferences dia-

log box”

.

Decode As...

This menu item is the same as the Analyze menu item of the
same name.

Resolve Name

This menu item causes name resolution to be performed for
the selected packet, but NOT every packet in the capture.

Go to Corresponding Packet

If the selected field has a corresponding packet, go to it. Cor-
responding packets will usually be a request/response packet
pair or such.

Figure 6.5. Pop-up menu of "Packet Bytes" pane

Working with captured packets

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