Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] filter expressions

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 01:25:14PM +0200, Rainer Haseneder wrote:
> Furthermore defining & saving a filter via Capture->Start->Filter
> does not serve anything. The new filter seems to be lost,
> if you try to select it in the status bar.

The filter field in the status bar (if by that you mean the bar at the
bottom of the Ethereal window) is for *display* filters, not *capture*
filters.  Capture filters and display filters have different syntaxes
and different capabilities.