["Olivier Biot" <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Guy Harris"


| On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 04:59:57PM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:
|
| > Former, all filter buttons are labelled "Filter", regardless if
they
| > refer to display or capture filters.
| >
| > It might be an idea, to label the more often display filter ones
| > simply "Filter...", and the capture filter buttons something more
| > descriptive like "Capture Filter...".
|
| Isn't that obvious from the context?  Or is the problem that it's
not
| obvious that libpcap filters and Ethereal filters are different?

Tha's the point we're discussing: novice users do not *know* that
Ethereal only provides "display filters" (maybe we should call those
dissect filters), and that *libpcap* (or winpcap) provides "capture
filters". I intend to discuss this in more detail in a new Ethereal
user's guide if I find some time to do so. Even for me in the early
days I never succeeded in capturing with a filter as I thought the
filter language was the same ;^)

Regards,

Olivier