["Ronnie Sahlberg" <ronnie_sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IO STAT for both ethereal and tethereal can already do this.
see manpage

It can however only count the number of times a specific field occurs in the
captures, not how many
times an expression evaluates to true.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Biot Olivier"
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 10:14 PM
Subject: [Ethereal-dev] Wish List: count the occurrences of <display
filterexpression>


> Hi all,
>
> I often have the need of counting the occurrences of some filterable thing
> happen in a capture. It would be nice to have this implemented. I suppose
> going through the packet list is fairly simple, but write the graphical
> front-end requires GTK programming... Which I do not master (yet :)
>
> As packets can be encapsulated within packets, we really need to count the
> number of matching frames and the total number of occurrences.
>
> Should this be part of the Tools->statistics, or could we always write
this
> type of info in some status line at the bottom of Ethereal?
>
> Regards,
>
> Olivier
>
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