Quick Filtering on a Protocol Layer

On the Frame Display , click the Quick Filtering icon or select Quick Filtering from the Filter menu.

This opens a dialog that lists all the protocols discovered so far. The protocols displayed change depending on the data received.

Protocol Quick Filtering

Frame Display Quick Filtering and Hiding Protocols Dialog

The box on the left is Protocols To Filter In. When you select the checkbox for a protocol in the Protocols to Filter In, the Summary pane will only display those frames that contain data from that protocol.

Quick Filter Protocl TabIf you filter on more than one protocol, the result are all frames that contain at least one of those protocols. For example, if you filter on IP and IPX NetBIOS, you receive all frames that contain either IP or IPX NetBIOS (or both).  A Quick Filter tab then appears on the Frame Display. Changing the filter definition on the Quick Filter dialog changes the filter applied on the Quick Filter tab. Quick filters are persistent during the session, but are discarded when the session is closed.

The box in the center is the Protocols To Hide. When you select the checkbox for a protocol in the Protocols To Hide, data for that protocol will not appear in the Decode, Binary, Radix, and Character panes.  The frames containing that type data will still appear in the Summary pane, but not in the Decode, Binary, Radix, and Character panes.

Quick Filter Named FilterThe box on the right is the Named Filters.  It contains filters that you create using the Named Filter and Set Condition dialogs.  When you select the checkbox for the Name Filters, a tab appears on the Summary Pane that displays the frame containing the specific data identified in the filternamed filter Tab.  The named Filter tab remains on the Frame Display Summary Pane unless you hide it using the Hide/Show Display Filters dialog.

With low energy, the Configured BT Low energy devices and Exclude NULLS and POLLs are default named filters.  

Check the small box next to the name of each protocol you want to filter in, hide, or Named Filter to display.

Then click OK