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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Alert on captured packet

From: "j.snelders" <j.snelders@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 20:08:01 +0100
Hi Harper,

Alarms and triggers are on the WishList:
see Capturing - number 7
http://wiki.wireshark.org/WishList

See also bug 2039 triggerd Capture:
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2039

Best regards
Joke

On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 15:59:05 +0000 (UTC) Harper wrote:
>I have a protocol, where the same request is sent again and again. Suddenly
>
>a request is answered with another reponse as it done usually. I have 
>configured Wireshark to use multiple files to capture all the data.
>
>Now I want to get an alert (message box, email, anything else) when this
>
>event occurs. This can be done by manually look in each capture file. But
>
>this is a bit cumbersome. Can this be done with Wireshark tools or with
an
>
>plug-in? Probably a LUA plug-in could do this?
>
>The creteria for the alert should be something like
>  udp.length > 1034 and udp.length< 1037
>
>
>Thanks,
>Harper