Using the Clipboard

Netdude provides a single clipboard area for temporary storing packets and moving them around between traces. The clipboard also serves an important other purpose: when you're placing packets in the clipboard (by copying or cutting them), the tcpdump output of these packets is placed in the X cut buffer, thus by pasting in other application you'll receive the tcpdump output there.

There is one thing you need to be aware of when using the clipboard to transfer packets between traces: in tcpdump traces, all packets must be of the same link-layer type[1]. Therefore, Netdude will prevent pasting of packets using different link-layer types than the ones in the packets already contained in a trace, if they differ.