User Guide

Capturing Live Network Data

Packets/s Number of packets captured in the last second. Will be greyed out,

if no packet was captured in the last second.

Stop Stop a currently running capture.

Start Start a capture on all selected interfaces immediately, using the

settings from the last capture or the default settings, if no options

have been set.

Options Open the Capture Options dialog with the marked interfaces

selected, see Section 4.5, “The "Capture Options" dialog box”.

Details (Microsoft Windows only) Open a dialog with detailed information about the interface, see

Section 4.9, “The "Interface Details" dialog box”.

Help Show this help page.

Close Close this dialog box.

4.5. The "Capture Options" dialog box

When you select Options... from the Capture menu (or use the corresponding item in the "Main" toolbar),

Wireshark pops up the "Capture Options" dialog box as shown in Figure 4.3, “The "Capture Options"

dialog box”.