The Ethereal Edit menu

The Ethereal Edit menu contains the fields shown in Table 2.

Figure 4. Ethereal Edit Menu

Table 2. Edit menu

Menu ItemAcceleratorDescription
Find Frame...Ctrl-F

This menu item brings up a dialog box that allows you to find a frame by entering an Ethereal display filter. There is further information on finding frames in the section called Finding frames.

Go to Frame...Ctrl-G

This menu item brings up a dialog box that allows you to specify a frame to goto by frame number.

Mark FrameCtrl-M

This menu item "marks" the currently selected frame. See the section called The Save Capture File As dialog box for more information about saving marked frames.

Mark All Frames 

This menu item "marks" all frames. See the section called The Save Capture File As dialog box for more information about saving marked frames.

Unmark All Frames 

This menu item "unmarks" all marked frames.

Preferences... 

This menu item brings up a dialog box that allows you to set preferences for many parameters that control Ethereal. You can also save your preferences so Ethereal will use them the next time you start it. More detail is provided in the section called Ethereal preferences

Capture Filters... 

This menu item brings up a dialog box that allows you to create and edit capture filters. You can name filters, and you can save them for future use. More detail on this subject is provided in the section called Defining and saving filters

Display Filters... 

This menu item brings up a dialog box that allows you to create and edit display filters. You can name filters, and you can save them for future use. More detail on this subject is provided in the section called Defining and saving filters

Protocols... 

This menu item brings up a dialog box that allows you to enable or disable the dissection of individual protocols edit.