Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Separating packet dump into TCP streams

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:08:31 -0800 (PST)
> ... but I have about hundreds of TCP streams within a single packet dump
> file. I was just wondering if there is an easier way to do this ( i.e.
> command-line/tethereal ) so that if I fire the script to tethereal with
> the specified filter expression, I can generate all hundreds of new
> packet dump files, each one a separate TCP stream.

No.

A filter expression generates a Boolean, i.e. a "yes or no", result;
that's not sufficient to generate multiple streams in a single
operation.