Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] Re: [ethereal-users] Display Filters vs. Capture Filters

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From: Nathan Neulinger <nneul@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 07:54:14 -0600
I personally would like to see the ability to use display filters at
capture time. Generally the only significant reason to use bpf filters
is for efficiency (speed). For alot of captures, the main concern is
just not capturing a tremendous amount of unneeded data. 

Perhaps a radio button to pick between them?

Now, this obviously would require some trickery such as a second
temporary file for the capture that the packets get copied to as they
are filtered, or something like that. 

Something to think about in any case.

-- Nathan

> [SNIP]
> > I think the Display filters and Capture filters should be
> > kept in different places
> > and managed with separate dialogue boxed clearly marked as
> > "Display Filters" or "Capture Filters".
> 

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