Which menu item allows the user to enable/disable protocol dissectors?

• A. Analyze -> Conversation Filter
• B. Analyze -> Display Filters
• C. Analyze -> Enabled Protocols
• D. Statistics -> Endpoints

Answer: (C)

Dissectors determine how packet bytes are parsed into protocol fields, and you control which ones are active from the Analyze menu. The option to manage this is the Enabled Protocols dialog, where you can toggle each protocol on or off. Turning a protocol on allows its dissector to run and decode packets into readable fields; turning it off prevents that dissector from running, which can leave packets shown as raw data or as generic protocol placeholders. This is useful for speeding up analysis on large captures or isolating how packets appear without certain dissectors.

The other menu items don’t affect how packets are decoded: Conversation Filter helps build filters based on conversations, Display Filters are for filtering which packets are shown, and Endpoints under Statistics simply lists endpoint activity.