Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Re: [ethereal-cvs] cvs commit: ethereal capture.c ethertype.c packet-eth.cpacket-

[Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 11:03:13AM -0600, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 06:56:49PM -0600, Nathan Neulinger wrote:
> > I just had an idea. It might be interesting to have a status/counters
> > window where a user could 'add/remove/edit' a list of filter
> > specifications and the window would update as the capture was taking
> > place.
> >
> > A default set of filters could include the protocol keywords for major
> > protocols. The window could even have two columns - 'captured' and
> > 'displayed'.
> >
> > Sortof a display-time dynamic packet stats/counter.
> >
> > I have no idea how difficult this would be, just a thought.
> 
> Hmm - The problem is that i often work on X-Term and the updates
> of the Capture stats produce extra packets you have in the logs.

I don't quite understand your sentence above. Something is causing
extra packets?
 
> I would more like to reduce the number of things you see - Just
> a Number of total packets - Or just a heartbeat ...

Yes, this should be user-configurable. Another item on the TODO list... :)

--gilbert