3.21. The Statusbar

Figure 3.20. The initial Statusbar

Figure 3.21. The Statusbar with a loaded capture file

• The colorized bullet on the left shows the highest expert info level found in the currently loaded capture file. Hovering the mouse over this icon will show a textual description of the expert info level, and clicking the icon will bring up the Expert Infos dialog box. For a detailed description of expert info, see Section 7.3, “Expert Infos”.

• The left side shows information about the capture file, its name, its size and the elapsed time while it was being captured.

• The middle part shows the current number of packets in the capture file. The following values are displayed:

  • Packets: the number of captured packets

  • Displayed: the number of packets currently being displayed

  • Marked: the number of marked packets

  • Dropped: the number of dropped packets (only displayed if Wireshark was unable to capture all packets)

  • Ignored: the number of ignored packets (only displayed if packets are ignored)

• The right side shows the selected configuration profile. Clicking in this part of the statusbar will bring up a menu with all available configuration profiles, and selecting from this list will change the configuration profile.

Figure 3.22. The Statusbar with a configuration profile menu

Figure 3.23. The Statusbar with a selected protocol field

Figure 3.24. The Statusbar with a display filter message