Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Filtering

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From: Jeff Foster <jfoste@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 13:05:05 -0500
> I have been using application succesfully (great tool!) for
> troubleshooting.  However, I have been capturing everything on the network
> and then looking through and extracting what I need.  Forgive my ignorance
> but is there a way, for example, to filter between two machines?  I would
> like to have the ability to capture packets between server a and b, or
> server a and any, etc...

Assuming that you are interested in capture filters...

Unfortunately capture filters are not the same as display filters.
For capture filtering you need to read the tcpdump docs.

For the situation you describe the filter would be -

host A and host B

enter that in to the filter line on the Capture Preferences box.

Jeff Foster
jfoste@xxxxxxxxxxxx