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Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] filter: browser.period == ????

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 03:15:51 -0800
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 04:42:04AM -0600, Roemhild, Rafael wrote:
> I have been trying to filter out one specific "Update-
> Periodicity" from the browser-protocol. The period time
> I'll filter is 12 minutes (720 sec). I've set my filter
> to: browser.period == 720 (in another test also to 12);
> but this doesn't list anything. With filter set to
> "browser" ethereal lists many packets with period time
> set to 12 minutes.
> 
> Any ideas where I make mistakes?

The units of the periodicity are milliseconds, so you need 720000 to
search for 720-second updates.