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Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Filters and airodump captures

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:34:20 -0700
tcharsle@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Does anyone have problems with Filters not working right with 'airodump' capture files?

Any == filter ends up returning no packets, any ! filter doesn't remove unwanted packets.

The Ethereal filter code - and, in fact, the vast majority of the code in Ethereal - doesn't know what type of capture file is being used, so this is unlikely to have anything to do with the fact that it's a particular type of capture file.

Do you have an example of an == filter that returns no packets and of a packet it should have matched, or of a ! filter that doesn't remove unwanted packets and of one of the packets it should have removed, so we can see what the problem might be?