Guy,
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:42:23PM +0100,
> Alistair.McGlinchy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > (It puzzles me why this page is not bundled with the
> Windows binaries
>
> Because there is not necessarily a single item to which "this
> page" refers - is it the WinDump 2.2 page, the 2.3 page, or
> the 3.0 alpha page (or the 3.0 page when 3.0 comes out)?
>
> The set of capture filters supported by libpcap changes over
> time, as new capabilities are added; bundling some
> *particular* version with Ethereal runs the risk of either
>
> 1) documenting stuff that some users won't be able to use
> because they have too old a version of WinPcap
>
> or
>
> 2) not documenting stuff that some users *will* be able to use
> because they have a newer version of WinPcap.
>
Hmmm. I see your point. But there's a third "risk", which is that Windows
users don't have any capture filter documentation at all, not even a simple
example to server as a sanity check.
Provided the documentation explains the relationship between Ethereal and
the Pcap libraries, and any further caveats you may wish to mention, then
surely a salient URL or two, and a few simple examples would be an
improvement over "See manual page of tcpdump(8)"?
Alistair
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