Ethereal-dev: Re: [jerryt@xxxxxxxxxx: Re: [ethereal-dev] Ethereal 0.7.0 released]
Very interesting for two reasons:
1) Somebody else actually uses "match selected" :-)
2) The bug needs to be fixed. Match Selected didn't use display
filters last I heard; unless somebody rewrote it.
-Ashok
Gilbert Ramirez writes:
> Here's an early report of a bug in 0.7.0. It probably has everything
> to do with the display filter code. I won't be able to look at it until
> late this evening or tomorrow, but in case anyone is interested, here's
> the report.
>
> --gilbert
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Jerry Talkington <jerryt@xxxxxxxxxx> -----
>
> From: Jerry Talkington <jerryt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 01:18:43 -0500
> To: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [ethereal-dev] Ethereal 0.7.0 released
>
>
>
> Howdy Gilbert!
>
> I just tried 0.7.0, and it crashed ;(
>
> I loaded up a 6.6M file, and everthing worked fine, until I chose a source
> port and "match selected". My memory usage shot through the roof, nearly
> filling up swap before I caught it. I fired up 0.6.3 as a sanity check,
> and it worked fine (this is what I was using previously to check out the
> trace).
>
> I'm on Linux 2.2.10, on a dual PII-450 with 256M RAM. Let me know if there
> is something more you need to know, or if there is a better way to report
> something like this.
>
> * Gilbert Ramirez (gram@xxxxxxxxxx) done spit this rhetoric:
> > I released 0.7.0 tonight. It should appear on freshmeat
> > and ethereal-announce soon.
> >
> > Here's a list of the projects that I could remember
> > that we're thinking about:
> >
> >
> > Defragging fragmented packets and sending them
> > through the dissectors again (logical view of transmissions,
> > instead of "physical" packets)
> >
> > Color support
> >
> > Loadable dissector modules
> >
> > Protocol description language
> >
> > Supporting the new win32 libpcap
> >
> > Printing of selected packets
> >
> > GUI filter creator
> >
> > Remove race-condition in creation of temporary pcap capture.
> >
> > Wiretap to support capturing
> >
> > And of course, new protocol dissectors are always welcome!
> >
> >
> > In the immediate future, I'm going to work on enhancing
> > the display filter and proto_tree code, and try to move all
> > the GTK code to a subdirectory, to make the top-level
> > source GUI-independent. I'd really like to see a curses
> > ethereal in the far-off future, and this is the first step.
> >
> > --gilbert
> >
> >
>
> --
> Jerry Talkington
> NetCache Escalation Engineer
> Network Appliance, Inc.
>
> "I'll be your huckleberry."
> - Larry "Sparc-ee" Armstrong
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
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