Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Triggers in Ethereal & Post-Capture Processing

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Is there any way to get Ethereal to trigger on certain events?  Say,
> only start saving capture data to a file if it see traffic on a certain
> port or from a certain IP address?  Or a stop trigger as well?

No.

That'd probably involve capture filter expressions as the start and stop
expressions.

> If not, are there any plans on adding that in the future?

It's something that might be nice to add, but there are no explicit
plans to add it, unless it happens to be in the wish list - and even
stuff on the wish list isn't guaranteed to show up in any particular
future release.