Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Display Filter question

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:31:20 -0400
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 08:11:33AM -0400, Schuyler wrote:
> I just recently upgraded to ethereal 0.8.18, and noted what appeared to 
> be a change in the Display Filters capability. I have a couple of canned 
> filters whin utilize CIDR notation, that had always worked fine with 
> 0.8.15, bu give me an error when used in 0.8.18. For example, when I use 
> a filter like "!(ip.addr == 10.7.0.0/16)", I get the error "The string 
> '24' was unexpected in this context". Am I missing something?

Yes, the display filter engine was re-written, and the CIDR support
was left as something to take care of later. Later is now;
after reading your e-mail I got off my lazy ass and wrote the code;
CIDR support is now checked into CVS and will appear in the next
release.

--gilbert