The Preferences & Utilities Window


The Preferences & Utilities Windows lets you modify options and behavior of the application.


Buttons:

Select which Logical Network Id will be probed

Enable/Disable the IP to Host resolution

Enable/Disable the generation of IP to Host resolution packets
(If disable the application will need an IP stack loaded for IP to Host resolution, if enable the application will generate the resolution packets on its own without the need of any IP stack)

Enable/Disable the display of password found in decoded packet
(Useful in an unsecured environment to prevent the application from displaying passwords , POP, FTP, NNTP, Telnet ...)

Enable/Disable the display of help balloons when leaving the cursor on a button

Leave or Kill the network probe when leaving the application
(If disable when leaving the application the network probe will still continue to buffer packets, when you'll restart the application you'll be able to jump back to the past, useful when something just happened on your network and you want to be able to start the application and investigate it)

Enable/Disable the palette update when the application is used in a 256 colors mode
(If disable the palette will not be updated and you won't be able to see the colors
as they really are in a 256 colors graphic mode)

Enable/disable the use of regular expression instead of pattern match
(If disable pattern match will be used in any table using a match field, If enable regular expression will be used instead)

Enable/Disable the confirmation dialog window when sending a packet to the network

Enable/Disable the display of the hexadecimal values window in edit mode

Reset the tables, statistics, counters of the whole application

Memorize the preferences and the main window position & buttons states

Reset the preferences, all windows & tables settings and restart the application

Show the documentation of the application

Show the about window with the license name, number, used.


IP to Host resolution packet generator


To be able to generate IP to Host resolution packets you need to enter the following information:

The Logical Network Id where the generated packets will be sent to
The source MAC address (Usually the address of the local computer)
The source IP (Usually the IP of the local computer)

The destination MAC address (Usually the address of the computer running the name server or the gateway)

The destination IP (Usually the IP of the computer running the name server)


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