["Ronnie Sahlberg" <ronnie_sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lars Ruoff"
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal performance, after Guy's changes ...


>
>
> > You do not use any color filters.
> ?
> what do you mean?

If you use color filters, it means that ethereal MUST build a tree and that
causes ethereal to be "slower".
And I that think that no ethereal installation is complete without the color
filter "tcp.analysis.flags" marking all packets RED.

>
> > Anyway, either the RTP thing is updated to not register the tap unless
the
> > user selects it from the menu or we just reverse it.
> what do you mean by reverse?

Nothing.   But there should really be an option where the taps can be
disabled. It should default to off.

>
> Note that all there is to do to prevent the RTP Stream from beeing
> registered on startup is to remove rtp_streams.c from the TAP_SOURCES in
the
> makefile!
> The code *will* register and de-register itself automatically if the
window
> is requested.
> (At least i think so)
>

That would be a good solution.