The Wireshark menu sits on top of the Wireshark window.
An example is shown in Figure 3.2, “The Menu”.
Note!
Menu items will be greyed out if the corresponding feature isn't
available. For example, you cannot save a capture file if you didn't
capture or load any data before.
Figure 3.2. The Menu
It contains the following items:
File
This menu contains items to open and merge capture files,
save / print / export capture files in whole or in part,
and to quit from Wireshark. See Section 3.5, “The "File" menu”.
Edit
This menu contains items to find a packet, time reference or mark one
or more packets, handle configuration profiles, and set your preferences;
(cut, copy, and paste are not presently implemented).
See Section 3.6, “The "Edit" menu”.
View
This menu controls the display of the captured data,
including colorization of packets, zooming the font,
showing a packet in a separate window, expanding and collapsing trees in packet details, ....
See Section 3.7, “The "View" menu”.
This menu contains items to manipulate display filters, enable or
disable the dissection of protocols, configure user specified decodes
and follow a TCP stream.
See Section 3.10, “The "Analyze" menu”.
Statistics
This menu contains items to display various statistic windows,
including a summary of the packets that have been captured,
display protocol hierarchy statistics and much more.
See Section 3.11, “The "Statistics" menu”.
Tools
This menu contains various tools available in Wireshark, such as
creating Firewall ACL Rules.
See Section 3.12, “The "Tools" menu”.
Help
This menu contains items to help the user, e.g. access to some basic
help, a list of the supported protocols, manual pages, online access
to some of the webpages, and the usual about dialog.
See Section 3.13, “The "Help" menu”.
Each of these menu items is described in more detail in the sections
that follow.
Tip!
You can access menu items directly or by pressing the corresponding
accelerator keys which are shown at the right side of the
menu. For example, you can press the Control (or Strg in German) and the K
keys together to open the capture dialog.
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