Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal bugs?

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 23:30:38 -0700
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 02:32:59PM +0100, Paul Aitken wrote:
> Click Capture then Start.
> 
> Either
> 
> a) Click the filter button and choose a saved pre-tested and known good
> filter, or
> b) Type a filter criteria
> 
> OK the capture preferences.
> 
> Get a warning "Unable to parse filter string (parse error)." sometimes
> with random chars appended. Screenshot attached.

What are some of the filter expressions you've tried?

(The random chars probably only occur if you've selected "Update list of
packets in real time"; there was a bug in the code that receives error
messages from the child process, where it failed to '\0'-terminate the
message - fixed in the CVS tree.)