Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] 'Add Expression' button in 'Edit Capture Filte r' window ?

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From: Richard Urwin <RUrwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:31:21 -0000
On 12 December 2002 19:33, Devin Heitmueller
[mailto:dheitmueller@xxxxxxxxxxx] Wrote
> 
> On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 14:27, Guy Harris wrote:
> > Somebody might write such a dialog box some day.  I know of nobody
> > planning to do so.
> 
> The filter interface is one of the few areas that I think is 
> pretty weak
> in Ethereal (compared to other products).  I looked at it about six
> months ago with the intent of restructuring the whole thing, 
> but had not
> come to any conclusions on the best approach.
> 
> This has been on the Ethereal website wishlist for a while.

What investment do we have in the libpcap parser? One option would be to
build our own capture filter parser somewhat closer to the display
filter syntax. This would end a significant area of user confusion, and
could be extended in the future to a larger subset of the parsed
protocols.

--
Richard Urwin, Private
"No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato."


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