On Mar 22, 2010, at 1:40 PM, Maynard, Chris wrote:
> If I load a capture file then bring up the “Capture -> Options” dialog, it forces all packets to be re-processed. I was just wondering why that happens. Is that expected behavior or should I file a bug report for it? It seems like a bug to me as I can’t figure out why it would need to reprocess all the packets in that case. It’s particularly annoying if you’ve got a large capture file opened and only wanted to check the capture options used, not actually start a new capture.
My guess is that
1) bringing up the dialog box changes a capture preference
and
2) *any* change to *any* preference, even if it's not a protocol preference, causes packets to be reprocessed
but I could be wrong.
In any case, that seems pretty bogus, so file a bug.
