The Ethereal Tools menu
The Ethereal Tools menu contains the fields shown in Table 5.
Table 5. Tools menu
| Menu Item | Accelerator | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Plugins... | This menu item brings up a dialog box that allows you to manage Ethereal plugins. There are very few plugins todate. | |
| Follow TCP Stream | This menu item brings up a separate window and displays all the TCP segments captured that are on the same TCP connection as a selected packet. The data in the TCP stream is sorted into order, with duplicate segments removed, and it is then displayed in ascii. You can change the format is you desire. | |
| Decode As... | This menu item allows the user to force ethereal to decode certain packets as a particular protocol. | |
| Summary | This menu item brings up a statistics window that shows information about the packets captured. | |
| Protocol Hierarchy Statistics | This menu item displays a hierarchical tree of packet statistics. |