The "capture" menu, Tion 3.9, “the "capture" menu – Lucent Technologies Ethereal User Manual

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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

Interfaces...

This menu item brings up a dialog box that shows what's going on at the
network interfaces Ethereal knows of, see

Section 4.4, “The "Capture In-

terfaces" dialog box”

) .

Options...

Ctrl+K

This menu item brings up the Capture Options dialog box (discussed fur-
ther in

Section 4.5, “The "Capture Options" dialog box”

) and allows you

to start capturing packets.

Start

Immediately start capturing packets with the same settings than the last
time.

Stop

Ctrl+E

This menu item stops the currently running capture, see

Section 4.9.1,

“Stop the running capture”

) .

Restart

This menu item stops the currently running capture and starts again with
the same options, this is just for convenience.

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