On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Guy Harris wrote:
> > When I then fill in something in the filter field the capture works.
>
> Thank you.
Yes! Thank you!
> Sigh....
>
> We could work around it by compiling the filter string even if it's
> blank, and installing that; this adds some instructions to the code
> path, and, besides, it's just Ugly, but at least it'll let you capture
> packets on RH 6.1.
The following hack applied to gtk/capture_dlg.c appears to make things
work:
--- capture_dlg.c Wed Jan 5 08:50:13 2000
+++ capture_dlg.c.orig Wed Jan 5 08:50:52 2000
@@ -348,8 +348,6 @@
cf.cfilter = NULL; /* ead 06/16/99 */
if (filter_text && filter_text[0]) {
cf.cfilter = g_strdup(filter_text);
- } else {
- cf.cfilter = g_strdup("");
}
save_file = gtk_entry_get_text(GTK_ENTRY(file_te));
It looks like a similar change needs to be made to gtk/main.c for the '-k'
flag to work when no command-line filter is supplied. I'll check the
changes in later today.
> (Every day, I grow more eager to teach wiretap to do packet capture,
> blow the explosive bolts, and cast libpcap loose to drift into the far
> reaches of space....)
I would be willing to FedEx a box of my wife's cookies to anyone who
manages to do this. :-)
