Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Feature request: -c support when reading from a libpcap file

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From: "Joshua Wright" <Joshua.Wright@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 14:59:54 -0500
If I haven't mentioned it already, I love Ethereal.  So powerful, yet so simple.  It's a wonder companies like Network Associates make money on Sniffer.  I'll take Ethereal any day (and create a useful filter about 200 times faster than a trained Sniffer user).

I discovered yesterday that the tethereal -c option only works when capturing live data.  Is it possible to add this feature to use when reading a libpcap file?

This is particularly useful in lab and training environments where the user wants the student to examine a particular frame - they student would be able to specify that they want to examine frame 15 and it would be the last interpretation displayed.

Many thanks.

-Joshua Wright
Team Leader, Networks and Systems
Johnson & Wales University
Joshua.Wright@xxxxxxx 
http://home.jwu.edu/jwright/

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