Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] follow tcp stream alters which packets are displayed

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 15:30:43 -0800 (PST)
> If I have a filter set "yhoo", and then follow tcp stream for one of
> those packets, it shows a bunch of tcp ack packets that were not
> previously visible.

Yes, that's intentional - it changes the display filter to something
that matches all packets in the stream, and no other packets, so that
you can use it to limit the display to packets in a TCP connection.