Stuart MacDonald wrote:
Bug:
The first time after starting Ethereal you right-click a packet, the
Follow TCP Stream item is automatically selected, if possible. It's
like a right-click followed by a phantom left-click.
That don't sound like a bug, but some sort of feature ;-) Is
this really
a problem?
Yes, it very much is a problem. I'll try to be clearer:
Bug Non-bug
- start up ethereal, get a capture - start up ethereal, get capture
- select a packet - select a packet
- right click - right click
! Follow TCP Stream is "clicked" - use mouse to select item
! TCP stream is filtered - enjoy your selection
In the bug version, the single right click that normally brings up the
context menu instead brings it up and selects the first menu item.
With a very large capture, filtering the stream can take ages, or
cause ethereal to pseudo-crash. If you were trying to get to the
colourisation instead, this is very bad.
Hmmm, now I know, what your problem is, and I would agree that this is a
bug.
However, I cannot reproduce it.
I've started Ethereal, captured some packets and tried with a right
click inside the "packet list" but it worked as expected (it only showed
up the context menu and didn't start anything else).
After that, I tried the same with a right click inside the "packet
details", and again it all worked well.
We might need a different way to handle this.
It *might* depend on the packets you capture, so does this happen when
you load a capture file for the first time as well?
In this case you could send me the capture file (please no megabytes :-)
so I can try to reproduce it on my machine.
Regards, ULFL
