Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Thoughts

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From: gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gilbert Ramirez Jr.)
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:54:09 -0500 (CDT)
As Don Lafontaine said:
> 
> My thought is:  Why not do POST filtering of our own.  Trap all packets,
> but filter the display.  That way,  we could theoretically reshow the same
> data under different filters without having to restart a trace.  The NG
> Sniffer does this I believe.  (I'm pretty sure).  

The NG Sniffer has both capture filters and display filters. You can use
none, either, or both at the same time. This flexibility is nice.
 
--gilbert

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