Lucent Technologies Ethereal - Manual (Page 93)

With this dialog box, you can perform the following actions:
1. The "+ Add" button allows you to add a directory, selected in the right-hand pane, to the favor-
ites (bookmarks?) list. Those changes are persistent.
2. The "- Remove" button allows you to remove a selected directory from that list again (the items
like: "Home", "Desktop", and "Filesystem" cannot be removed).
3. Select files and directories with the list boxes.
4. View file preview information (like the filesize, the number of packets, ...), while browsing the
filesystem.
5. Specify a display filter with the Filter button and filter field. This filter will be used when open-
ing the new file. Clicking on the Filter button causes Ethereal to pop up the Filters dialog box
(which is discussed further in
Section 6.2, “Filtering packets while viewing” ).
6. Specify which name resolution is to be performed for all packets by clicking on one of the "En-
able name resolution" check buttons. Details about name resolution can be found in
Sec-
tion 7.4, “Name Resolution” .
7. Click the Open button to accept your selected file and open it. If Ethereal doesn't recognize the
capture format, it will grey out this button.
8. Click the Cancel button to go back to Ethereal and not load a capture file.
You can also change the display filter and name resolution settings later while viewing the packets.
However, for very large capture files it can take a significant amount of extra time changing these
settings later, so it might be a good idea to set at least the filter in advance here.
5.2.2. Input File Formats
File Input / Output and Printing
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