- Lucent Ethereal User's Guide

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.

User Interface