Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] New feature to Find. Search all PD structures for ASCII or HE

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From: Jaime Fournier <jafour1@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 11:55:42 -0700 (PDT)
Would be nice to have this avail in tethereal, and
thus remove the need for ngrep. :D
--- Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 12:13, Greg Morris wrote:
> > Please consider this new addition. Many times I
> have been asked why
> > Ethereal cannot search the hex data for a pattern
> of characters or hex
> > values. I spent a little time adding this new
> functionality.
> >  
> > Attached is an rtf document showing this new
> capability.
> >  
> > Also attached are the diffs.
> >  
> >
> 
> Neat. BTW, I'm also adding this functionality, but
> to the display filter
> syntax, so in the future one would be able to do
> this:
> 
> frame contains "gmorris_nts_client"
> 
> or
> 
> frame contains ff:ff:ff:ff:b0;fa
> 
> I'm currently re-working my patch after I received
> some good ideas from
> ethereal-dev.
> 
> Instead of two check boxes, maybe use a radio button
> group that also as
> "display filter" in it, so that the user can be
> certain whether to type
> a display filter, a hex sequence, or an ascii
> sequence. Hmm. You could
> add EBCDIC so that users could search for text in
> SNA packets. I need to
> add something to the dfilter syntax to allow for
> that too.
> 
> --gilbert
> 
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Jaime Fournier

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