Lucent Technologies Ethereal User Manual

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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

Format > Time
of Day

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

Format > Date
and

Time

of

Day

Selecting this tells Ethereal to display the time stamps in date and time of
day format, see

Section 6.9, “Time display formats and time references”

.

Time

Display

Format

>

Seconds

Since

Beginning

of

Capture

Selecting this tells Ethereal to display time stamps in seconds since be-
ginning of capture format, see

Section 6.9, “Time display formats and

time references”

.

Time

Display

Format

>

Seconds

Since

Previous Pack-
et

Selecting this tells Ethereal to display time stamps in seconds since previ-
ous packet format, see

Section 6.9, “Time display formats and time refer-

ences”

.

Name

Resolu-

tion > Resolve
Name

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

Section 7.4, “Name Resolution”

.

Name

Resolu-

tion > Enable
for MAC Layer

This item allows you to control whether or not Ethereal translates MAC
addresses into names, see

Section 7.4, “Name Resolution”

.

Name

Resolu-

tion > Enable
for

Network

Layer

This item allows you to control whether or not Ethereal translates net-
work addresses into names, see

Section 7.4, “Name Resolution”

.

Name

Resolu-

tion > Enable
for

Transport

Layer

This item allows you to control whether or not Ethereal translates trans-
port addresses into names, see

Section 7.4, “Name Resolution”

.

Colorize Packet
List

This item allows you to control wether or not Ethereal should colorize
the packet list.

Note!

Enabling colorization will slow down the display of new
packets while capturing / loading capture files.

Auto Scroll in
Live Capture

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