Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Hepl on Tetheral

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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 01:55:28 +0100 (BST)
You can also run with the -z proto,colinfo,somevar,somevar
to get it added to col_info
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Martin Regner wrote:

> 
> 
> Roycey Cheeran wrote:
> 
> <We are doing a project which mainly deals with network monitoring.
> 
> <We are using Tethreal for sniffing the packets in the network.
> 
> <We want the port numbers on which the HTTP transactions are taking place.
> <We know that it is available using the -V option,but this option gives us a log file 
> <which is really very very huge hence is not feasible to be used in out project.
> <
> <Can anyone tell us what changes has to be done to the code in order to get the 
> <port numbers on the HTTP lines  by just using the Tethereal command without the -V option
> 
> You can add source and destination ports to the summary printout for Ethereal/Tethereal by 
> changing the value for column.format in the preferences file either manually or by 
> using the Edit/Preferences/User Interface/Columns dialogue from Ethereal.
> 
> If you do it from Ethereal then you can e.g. add a column "Destination port (unresolved)" which will correspond
> to %uD in the preference file. 
> 
> Please note that Ethereal needs to be restarted when you have changed the settings (and pressed "Save") in order to
> use the new column formats.
> 
> The same preferences file will be used by Ethereal and Tethereal.
> 
> Below is an extract from my preferences file. The location of the file may vary depending on what OS you are using, e.g. 
> C:/Documents and Settings/Martin/Application Data/Ethereal/preferences
> # Packet list column format.
> 
> # Each pair of strings consists of a column title and its format.
> 
> column.format: "No.", "%m", "Time", "%t", "Source", "%s", "Destination",
> 
> "%d", "S_port", "%uS", "D_port", "%uD", "Len", "%L",
> 
> "Protocol", "%p", "Info", "%i"
>