Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Newby here - hello to all

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 11:43:43 -0700 (PDT)
> I just installed ethereal on my FreeBSD machine here at work, and it 
> runs fine, thankyou.
> Now to actually get some real useful info from it. I have read or 
> scanned through the man
> pages and still am not sure what to do next. I found the menu option for 
> turning on or off
> the various protocols, tried to set up a display filter (it didn't save).

What does "it didn't save" mean?

> Is there a tutorial of some kind available somewhere? Maybe on someones 
> web site?

Well, there's Richard Sharpe's manual for it, at

	http://www.ns.aus.com/ethereal/user-guide/book1.html

although it's for Ethereal 0.8.11, and wouldn't describe features added
after 0.8.11 came out.

What are you trying to do?  Are you trying to capture traffic, or do you
have some traffic that you're looking at?