The main menu

Wireshark's main menu is located at the top of the main window. In the main toolbar you have the following symbols:

• File: File operations such as open and save file, export packets, print, and so on.
• Edit: To find packets, mark packets, add comments, and most importantly, use the preferences' submenu. This will be described in Chapter 2, Mastering Wireshark for Network Troubleshooting.
• View: For configuring Wireshark display, colorization of packets, zooming, font changes, showing a packet in a separate window, expanding and collapsing trees in packet details, and so on.
• Go: To go to a specific packet, for example, to the first packet in the capture, the last packet, a packet number, and so on.
• Capture: To configure capture options and capture filters.
• Analyze: For analysis and display options like display filter configuration, decode options, to follow a specific stream, and so on.
• Statistics: To show statistics, starting from the basic hosts and conversations statistics up to the smart IO graphs and stream graphs.
• Telephony: For displaying IP telephony and cellular protocols information, for example, RTP and RTCP, SIP flows and statistics, GSM or LTE protocols, and so on.
• Wireless: For showing Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11 wireless statistics, later described in Chapter 9, Wireless LAN.
• Tools: For Lua operations as described in Appendix 4, Lua programming.
• Help: For user assistance, sample capture updates, and so on.