Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Capture filter not working with tethereal

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From: John LeMay <jlemay@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:03:39 -0500
Thanks for the quick reply. Perhaps the "put it in quotes" tip could be
added to the tethereal man page instead of the current "See manual page
of tcpdump(8)." The solution is simple enough, it's just not obvious
enough!

Thanks again!

Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > Can someone enlighten me as to what I am doing wrong?
> 
> You're assuming that Tethereal allows you to specify a multi-token
> capture filter without putting it in quotes.  Try
> 
>         tethereal -f "ip host 192.168.1.1"
> 
> (it'd have to take the filter as regular command-line arguments, rather
> than as a subargument of the "-f" flag, to make it work without quotes;
> we'll look into doing that).

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