Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Update the FAQ request and Feature Request

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 23:45:35 -0700
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 08:35:23PM -0700, james jones wrote:
> > So what you really want is the ability to have
> > multiple main Ethereal
> > windows with different display filters.
> 
> Right, that is exactly what I would like to have as a
> right click option. But would it be possible to only
> dump the stream into the window instead of the entire
> capture with the appropiate filters in place.

What do you mean by "only dump the stream into the window"?

Do you mean have a window that displays only a subset of the packets but
does so with a separate list of packets, rather than by filtering the
full list of packets?

If so, why?