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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Previous/Next Frame Display Filter?

From: Sake Blok <sake@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:53:56 +0200
On 12 aug 2010, at 15:28, Richard Torr wrote:

> Does anyone know if there’s a filter method for broadening the displayed frame range to +/- n such that after selecting frames which meet a particular criteria, a number of previous and next frames are displayed too?

Currently, filtering is done on a per-packet basis, so there is no way to display related packets or n packets before/after the packet that matches a filter. With some scripting and tshark it is possible though, but not quite straightforward...

Cheers,

Sake