You can bring up a pop-up menu over either the "Packet List", "Packet Details" or "Packet Bytes" pane by clicking your right mouse button at the corresponding pane.
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The following table gives an overview of which functions are available in this pane, where to find the corresponding function in the main menu, and a short description of each item.
Table 6.1. The menu items of the "Packet List" pop-up menu
| Item | Identical to main menu's item: | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mark Packet (toggle) | Edit |
Mark/unmark a packet. |
| Set Time Reference (toggle) | Edit |
Set/reset a time reference. |
| ----- | ||
| Apply as Filter | Analyze |
Prepare and apply a display filter based on the currently selected item. |
| Prepare a Filter | Analyze |
Prepare a display filter based on the currently selected item. |
| Conversation Filter | - |
This menu item applies a display filter with the address information from the selected packet. E.g. the IP menu entry will set a filter to show the traffic between the two IP addresses of the current packet. XXX - add a new section describing this better. |
| SCTP | - |
XXX - add an explanation of this. |
| Follow TCP Stream | Analyze |
Allows you to view all the data on a TCP stream between a pair of nodes. |
| Follow SSL Stream | Analyze |
Same as "Follow TCP Stream" but for SSL. XXX - add a new section describing this better. |
| ----- | ||
| Decode As... | Analyze |
Change or apply a new relation between two dissectors. |
| Print... | File |
Print packets. |
| Show Packet in New Window | View |
Display the selected packet in a new window. |
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The following table gives an overview of which functions are available in this pane, where to find the corresponding function in the main menu, and a short description of each item.
Table 6.2. The menu items of the "Packet Details" pop-up menu
| Item | Identical to main menu's item: | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Copy | - |
Copy the displayed text of the selected field to the system clipboard. |
| ----- | ||
| Expand Subtrees | View |
Expand the currently selected subtree. |
| Expand All | View |
Expand all subtrees in all packets in the capture. |
| Collapse All | View |
Wireshark keeps a list of all the protocol subtrees that are expanded, and uses it to ensure that the correct subtrees are expanded when you display a packet. This menu item collapses the tree view of all packets in the capture list. |
| ----- | ||
| Apply as Filter | Analyze |
Prepare and apply a display filter based on the currently selected item. name. |
| Prepare a Filter | Analyze |
Prepare a display filter based on the currently selected item. |
| Follow TCP Stream | Analyze |
Allows you to view all the data on a TCP stream between a pair of nodes. |
| Follow SSL Stream | Analyze |
Same as "Follow TCP Stream" but for SSL. XXX - add a new section describing this better. |
| ----- | ||
| Wiki Protocol Page | - |
Show the wiki page corresponding to the currently selected protocol in your web browser. |
| Filter Field Reference | - |
Show the filter field reference web page corresponding to the currently selected protocol in your web browser. |
| Protocol Preferences... | - |
The menu item takes you to the properties dialog and selects the page corresponding to the protocol if there are properties associated with the highlighted field. More information on preferences can be found in Figure 9.8, “The preferences dialog box”. |
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| Decode As... | Analyze |
Change or apply a new relation between two dissectors. |
| Resolve Name | View |
Causes a name resolution to be performed for the selected packet, but NOT every packet in the capture. |
| Go to Corresponding Packet | Go |
If the selected field has a corresponding packet, go to it. Corresponding packets will usually be a request/response packet pair or such. |
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The following table gives an overview of which functions are available in this pane, where to find the corresponding function in the main menu, and a short description of each item.
Table 6.3. The menu items of the "Packet Bytes" pop-up menu
| Item | Identical to main menu's item: | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Copy/All Information | - |
Copy the selected (XXX - all?) packet data to the clipboard (XXX - in which format). |
| Copy/Text Only | - |
Copy the selected packet data to the clipboard (XXX - in which format). |
| Export Selected Packet Bytes... | File |
This menu item is the same as the File menu item of the same name. It allows you to export raw packet bytes to a binary file. |