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Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Colorize

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 12:28:46 -0400
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 05:07:39PM +0100, Olly Marshall wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am doing a live capture of various protocols on our network. Is it
> possible to have entries colourized by their string content?? That is, I
> want any packets containing the string USER:SIMPLE to be highlighted
> regardless of any other factors. Can this be done ?

No, the display filter engine in Ethereal cannot yet search
for arbitrary strings anywhere in the packet.

--gilbert