• Preferences

Preferences

The Preferences settings will be described here.

• /UserInterface

  • /Layout

  • /Columns

  • /Font

  • /Colors

• /Capture

• /Printing

• /NameResolution

• Protocols

  • HTTP HTTP_Preferences

  • IP IP_Reassembly

  • ISMACryp ISMACryp_Preferences

  • iSNS iSNS_Preferences

  • NDMP NDMP_Preferences

  • NFS NFS_Preferences

  • SCSI SCSI_Preferences

  • SIMULCRYPT SIMULCRYPT_Preferences

  • SNMP

  • TCP

    • TCP_Reassembly

    • TCP_Checksum_Verification

    • TCP_Analyze_Sequence_Numbers

    • TCP_Relative_Sequence_Numbers

  • IPsec

    • ESP ESP_Preferences

Preference Dialog Buttons

• The OK button will save and apply the preferences settings and close the dialog.

• The Apply button will save and apply the preferences settings and keep the dialog open.

• The Cancel button will restore all preferences settings to the last saved state.

• The Help button will display the Preferences section of the Wireshark User's Guide.

Note: The above are the buttons shown when the preference "Settings dialogs show a save button" is Off (unchecked). This is the Wireshark normal default configuration.

If the "Settings dialogs show a save button" preference is On (checked) then the Preferences Dialog buttons are as follows:

• The OK button will apply the preferences settings and close the dialog.

• The Apply button will apply the preferences settings and keep the dialog open.

• The Save button will apply the preferences settings, save the settings to the preferences file and keep the dialog open.

• The Cancel button will restore all preferences settings to the last saved state.

• The Help button will display the Preferences section of the Wireshark User's Guide.

In this configuration the OK or Apply button will not save the preference settings; you'll have to save the settings by clicking the Save button.

Comments

• How should we add the protocol preferences? Do we do one page per protocol, or do we list each preference on a separate wiki page? -- Olivier Biot

  • Good question, I think it would be good with one page for each preference setting, so it is easy to find it both by searching for it as well as from the index. Maybe also with one main page for the protocol that links to the protocol specific preferences. So that all the TCP preferences above would still remain as separate pages but the TCP above would be come its own page and the three preferences for TCP would be linkes from that page. I dont feel strongly about how we add it so anyone make a decision and I will follow it (ronnie) (Stephen Flynn) I think one page per protocol will be cleaner looking and easier to find, since many preferences only need a couple of lines to describe them. Only on the protocols like TCP, where bigger descriptions are required, do we need to break out new pages per preference setting.

• Don't forget to tell folks that want to use the "Save" button, that it is enabled via a check box at the bottom of the first page of the preferences editor titled "Settings dialogs show a save button: " - otherwise they may never find the "Save" button. The file saved will appear in the {username}'s Document&Settings\ApplicationData\Wireshark directory, called "preferences" (at least with the Windoze). /;^) A_Sieg <@> NASA.gov

• How about command line preferences in the form namepref:value? Is there a reference to valid names? Currently, no; we could add another option to the "-G" flag in TShark to write a list of preferences to the standard output, and process that output into a manual page or other form of documentation. -- Guy Harris