Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Filtering on fields in display filters

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 22:12:25 -0500
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 01:40:45PM +0900, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can we filter on all fields that a dissector places in the tree view, or
> only those fields that are in the filter table that the dissector makes
> available?

If I understand your question, the latter. There are lots of text labels
added to the proto tree which are *not* registered fields; filtering
cannot be done on those. The display filter engine regards only the
registered fields.

(We *could* implement a grep-like function on those, I guess, but
no one is pushing that.)

--gilbert