Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Re: [ethereal-cvs] cvs commit: ethereal capture.c ethertype.c

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From: Florian Lohoff <flo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 17:54:26 +0100
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 06:56:49PM -0600, Nathan Neulinger wrote:
> I just had an idea. It might be interesting to have a status/counters
> window where a user could 'add/remove/edit' a list of filter
> specifications and the window would update as the capture was taking
> place.  
> 
> A default set of filters could include the protocol keywords for major
> protocols. The window could even have two columns - 'captured' and
> 'displayed'.
> 
> Sortof a display-time dynamic packet stats/counter.
> 
> I have no idea how difficult this would be, just a thought.

Hmm - The problem is that i often work on X-Term and the updates
of the Capture stats produce extra packets you have in the logs.

I would more like to reduce the number of things you see - Just
a Number of total packets - Or just a heartbeat ...

Flo
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