Lucent Technologies Ethereal - Manual (Page 54)

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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