[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 06:09:57PM +0100, Ben Fowler wrote:
> The operative cause of the problem was that I had
>        tcp port 80 OR tcp port 3128
> in the filters dialogue, and this was sufficient to
> prevent the filter working, without unfortunately alerting
> me to the problem

When I tried it, I got a dialog box that said

	Unable to parse filter string (parse error)

Unfortunately, libpcap's parser doesn't do anything to try to give a
more precise diagnostic than "parse error", so it can't tell you that
the problem is that "OR" isn't a valid token, but it does, at least, let
you know that it's not valid.

> Since compatibility with tcpdump is a useful feature and starting
> point, I am not suggesting that case sensitivity be changed;

So are you saying that tcpdump *did*, or *didn't*, accept

	tcp port 80 OR tcp port 3128

with upper-case "OR"?