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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 4070] Add a facility within wireshark to remove duplicate

Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:28:53 -0800 (PST)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4070

--- Comment #8 from Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx> 2009-12-18 17:28:48 CET ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> I was thinking to add an option to deduplicate before saving to dumpcap. Of
> course we could also add that option to tshark and wireshark to filter out
> duplicates when reading from file. To me that seems more logical than to keep
> the duplicates in memory but ignored.

Definite -

Dumpcap needs to be lean, mean, and above all secure. It's our only privileged
part (thinking in the *n*x context here) so no room for anything else.

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