> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joerg Mayer [mailto:jmayer@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: August 20, 2002 2:32 PM
> To: Eichert, Diana
> Cc: ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Decoding packets while writing to
> file with tethereal
SNIP
> I don't want to take away an option that has the effect of completely
> quiet output. The only thing I want is that as long as there aren't
> very good reasons, I don't want option a to influence the behaviour
> of option b, in this instance, I don't like -w to influence whether
> packages are decoded, packet counts shown etc. As I didn't want to
> change the behaviour of existing flags, I chose -Q. Maybe something
> like -q[scdv] s: silent, c: count, d:decode v:verbose decode would
> make more sense. OK, remove that maybe :-)
>
> Ciao
> Jörg
Hmmm, I had been using tcpdump for years before installing Ethereal,
which came with this great tool tethereal. In some ways tethereal
works as tcpdump(ex: capture filter language), and sometimes
differently(ex: default snap length, quietness of -w). Tcpdump is
quiet when capturing with the "-w" switch invoked. I needed the
quietness of tcpdump, so I modified a local copy, then posted the
diff's on the user list.
I've always thought that tethereal should use tcpdump's default
operation for it's defaults and give tethereal a superset to support
it's additional features. This would allow me to interchange the use
of tethereal/tcpdump, depending on it's availability, in scripts with
no modification. However that's only my opinion. I think the people
that have written it can have it operate anyway they please.
g,day
diana