Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Feature request - Follow UDP Stream

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From: Biot Olivier <Olivier.Biot@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:50:17 +0200
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Ronnie Sahlberg
| Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Feature request - Follow UDP Stream
| 
| 
| Fair enough.
| 
| 
| What ethereal would need are two new features:
| 1, Clicking on the packet list should bring up a popup menu 
| where one can
| select :
|       Filter/Match This Conversation
|     This should at least support TCP and UDP to start with.

Ideally, one should have the ability to choose which conversation to follow
(Ethernet/IP/TCP-UDP/etc). This could be handled by either linking the
conversation to the transport protocol, or by providing a stack of
conversations to a given protocol, where one could hide high-level protocol
conversations when right-clicking on a lower-level protocol entry.

| 2, Ethereal should also have a new feature for ALL filter 
| popup menus :
|     Filter trace in new window
|     which would create the filter, save all packets matching 
| the filter to a
| temporary file named something like
|        /tmp/<original_name>-<filter_string>.cap
|     and then launch a new instance of ethereal loading the 
| filtered capture
| file.

How about only recording packet *offsets* to a temporary file?

Regards,

Olivier