Configuring color options
You can configure how colors already assigned in other dialogs will be used in displaying packets. There are four sources of color assignments for elements of network traffic:
• The Flags view of the Packet List Options dialog (available by left-clicking anywhere in the Packet List pane headers) determines the color associated with error or trigger packets. You can also assign a color to 802.11 WLAN management packets and control packets, as well as to encrypted packets and/or to packets with decryption errors.
• The Edit Name dialog in the Name Table can set the color for packets associated with a particular address (node), port, or protocol.
• ProtoSpecs assigns colors to all the protocols it can identify. ProtoSpecs color choices cannot be overridden.
• The Insert Filter or Edit Filter dialog can set the color for any filter you create or edit.
The submenu (on the menu, click ) has the following options:
• Source: Shows packets destined for a particular node in the color assigned to that node in the Name Table.
• Destination: Shows packets destined for a particular node in the color assigned to that node in the Name Table.
• Protocol: Shows packets in the color assigned to protocols by ProtoSpecs. If ProtoSpecs can identify the protocol and the protocol is listed in the Name Table and has a color assigned there, then the color assigned in the Name Table will be used.
• Filter: Shows packets that are captured through a filter in the color assigned to that filter in the Edit Filter dialog.
• Flag: Shows packets that have been flagged in the color assigned to trigger, error, and other flagged packet types in the Packet List Options dialog.
• Independent: Shows each of the above items in its own assigned color.
• No Color: Turns off all color coding.