Obtaining packet information

• Address

• Column

• Columns

• Pinfo

Columns

The columns of the packet list

• function	description
  columns:__tostring()	Returns "Columns" (for debug purposes only)
  columns:__newindex(column,text)	Sets the text of a specific column

columns:__tostring()

• Description

  • Gets a string representation of the column. Currently, this is hard-coded to "Columns" (for debug purposes only).

  Returns

  • string : "Columns"

  Example

  •    1 local col = pinfo.cols.info
       2 print(tostring(col))
    

columns:__newindex(column, text)

• Description

  • Sets the text of a specific column. Some columns cannot be modified, and no error is raised if attempted. The columns that are known to allow modification are info and protocol.

  Parameters

  • column : string

    • name of the column

      column name	column description
      number	frame number
      abs_time	timestamp (absolute)
      utc_time	timestamp (UTC)
      cls_time	timestamp (CLS)
      rel_time	timestamp (relative)
      date	date of arrival
      utc_date	date of arrival (UTC)
      delta_time	time since last received packet
      delta_time_displayed	time since last displayed packet
      src	source IP address
      src_res	source IP address (resolved)
      src_unres	source IP address (unresolved)
      dl_src	source data-link
      dl_src_res	source data-link (resolved)
      dl_src_unres	source data-link (unresolved)
      net_src	source network
      net_src_res	source network (resolved)
      net_src_unres	source network (unresolved)
      dst	destination IP address
      dst_res	destination IP address (resolved)
      dst_unres	destination IP address (unresolved)
      dl_dst	destination data-link
      dl_dst_res	destination data-link (resolved)
      dl_dst_unres	destination data-link (unresolved)
      net_dst	destination network
      net_dst_res	destination network (resolved)
      net_dst_unres	destination network (unresolved)
      src_port	source port
      src_port_res	source port (resolved)
      src_port_unres	source port (unresolved)
      dst_port	destination port
      dst_port_res	destination port (resolved)
      dst_port_unres	destination port (unresolved)
      protocol	packet protocol
      info	information field
      packet_len	packet length in bytes
      cumulative_bytes	cumulative bytes
      direction	packet direction
      vsan	VSAN
      tx_rate	transmit rate
      rssi	RSSI
      dce_call	DCE call

    text : string

    • The desired text of the column

  Example

  •    1 pinfo.cols['info'] = 'foo bar'
       2 
       3 -- syntactic sugar (equivalent to above)
       4 pinfo.cols.info = 'foo bar'