Title: A command line switch for tethereal's toptalkers stats that suppresses printing of decoded packets during capture?
Folks:
I have been playing with the new toptalkers capability in tethereal 0.9.9 and was wondering if a new command line switch (I propose "-Q") would be useful to suppress all decoded packet info to the display while collecting stats (In this case top talker info). With use of a "-R" display filter I can do this now. For example:
-on a ethernet segment collecting traffic for 30 seconds...
./tethereal -i eth1 -a duration:30 -R "not eth" -z io,users,eth
-or-
./tethereal -i eth1 -a duration:30 -R "not eth" -z io,users,ip
This works just fine for collecting toptalker stats while suppressing any decode output capturing on an ethernet segment. Since I'm on a ethernet segment by using the (-R "not eth") filter I can get the desired results. It is just not intuitive....
I propose something like:
./tethereal -i eth1 -a duration:30 -Q -z io,users,ip
Thoughts... Am I missing something? or does this capability already exist?
---Ronald W. Henderson