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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Apply read filter while writing to file

From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:38:49 +0100
On 03/07/2013 11:27 AM, Muhammad El-Sergani wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> After a recent Wireshark update on one of our SIP servers, we are unable to
> apply a read filter while writing the capture file, but rather have to capture
> everything to a host, write that to a file then apply our read filters when
> reading from the file.
> 
> This is hard to maintain as our SIP traffic is huge, and just capturing
> everything is unpractical.
> 
> Is there a known/method/practice/script that can be used to allow users to apply
> a read filter to a trace session while writing the dump to a file?
> 
> Everything is Linux based.
> 
> Thanks
> in advance!
> //M
> 

Hi,

Can you specify what a recent Wireshark update means? What version did you have
before and what version do you have now?

Thanks,
Jaap