Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] feature request for wiretap/ethereal

[Nathan Neulinger <nneul@xxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > It would be nice if I could tell ethereal to write out the packet data
> > through the wiretap processing routines regardless of whether I'm saving
> > the data as the same type of file.
> 
> What happens if you have no display filter set, but select "Save only
> packets currently being displayed"?  Currently, the save code doesn't
> check whether the display filter is non-trivial before deciding to use
> Wiretap to write the capture file, it does so if you've selected "Save
> only packets currently being displayed" even if all the packets are
> being displayed.

Oh, cool. That will do the trick.

-- Nathan

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