User`s guide

Protocol Analyzer
Working with Captured Packets
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To search for a packet
1 Choose Navigate➤Search for Packet… from the
packet decodes window.
2 Indicate whether to search in the Summary, Detail, or
Hex pane.
3 Specify a range of packets to narrow the search.
4 Specify the exact pattern to find.
Searching lets you locate a packet that contains the pattern you specify.
When you choose Navigate➤Search for Packet…, a window similar to the
one in figure 81 on page 388 opens.
The Search for Packet window contains the following fields.
When you specify a search pattern and click Apply, Protocol Analyzer
begins searching with the first packet in the range (indicated by the
From Packet # field).
Summary
Detail
Hex
Indicates which pane to search for the pattern. You can search only one
pane at a time.
When searching, Protocol Analyzer looks at everything in the pane. For
example, when searching the Hex pane, Protocol Analyzer looks at the
hexadecimal bytes, ASCII translation, and byte numbers in margin.
From Packet #
To Packet #
Specifies a range of packets to search, thus narrowing the scope of the
search operation. The default values encompass all packets in the view.
Pattern Indicates exactly the pattern to search for, including spaces and
capitalization. For example, when looking for a Hex pattern, searching
for a0bf is not the same as searching for A0 BF.
Note that a search for a hex byte pattern like A0 BF will not find bytes
that are split by the marker hyphen (separating the first through
eighth bytes from the ninth through sixteenth bytes on each line). To
find this pattern, you must specify A0 - BF.