Hiding and unhiding packets
To reduce the number of visible packets in the Packets view of a capture window, you can hide packets from the view without actually deleting them from a capture window. Hide functions are disabled for capture windows when the capture is still running.
Hidden packets are not processed by Analysis Modules or used when calculating the various capture window statistics. Additionally, they are not printed when the contents of the window are printed, and are not saved when you choose from the menu. They are, however, deleted when you select from the menu or press .
Hiding or Unhiding packets causes all packets in the capture window to be reprocessed by any enabled Analysis Modules and causes statistics to be recalculated based on the changed visible contents of the capture window’s buffer.
NOTE: The hide and unhide functions are not supported for a Capture Engine capture window. The packets from a Capture Engine capture window must first be brought into an Omnipeek capture window in order to use the hide functions. See Using hide and unhide on a Capture Engine.
To use the hide and unhide functions:
• To hide the selected packets, on the menu, click (or press ).
• To hide unselected packets, on the menu, click (or press ).
• To restore all hidden packets to view, on the menu, click (or press ). You can continue to selectively hide additional packets but cannot selectively unhide packets.