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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] [Q] Filter filter expression for Android emulator.

From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:40:49 -0600
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:03:19AM +0000, ?????? wrote:

> I am just new to WireShark, and want to use it for sniffing traffic 
> between Android Emulator and my host computer. I want to focus only on 
> traffic between two. I use DDMS from Android ADT for debugging, whose 
> device monitoring serivces listens on port from 8600. I would like to 
> sniff traffic from one on port 8600.
> 
> How can I express capture filter string for this purpose? Does anyone 
> have a proper capture filter file, or a proper capture filter string?

Filtering what is captured, a capture filter:

http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChCapCaptureFilterSection.html

Filtering after traffic is captured, a display filter:

http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChWorkDisplayFilterSection.html


Steve