Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Tap listners

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From: "Eichert, Diana" <deicher@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:56:59 -0600
Hmmm, another reason to use getopts_long?  Or instead of having -q 
be a boolean give it an integer value, similiar to how other 
programs set the debug level?

-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 4:26 PM
To: Martijn Schipper
Cc: ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Tap listners



On Oct 9, 2003, at 8:27 AM, Martijn Schipper wrote:

> Is there a way to do statistics with tethereal on a captured file 
> without seeing all descriptions of the packets scrolling on the screen 
> or logged in a file?

Unfortunately, no.  There should probably be a flag to suppress the 
printing of the results of packet dissection; I don't know whether the 
existing "-q" flag should also do that or not - one could argue that 
suppressing that is different from suppressing the count of packets 
captured, and therefore that a new flag would be a good idea, but I 
could see "-q" used for that.