You're right, there is something broken (at least in 0.9.3 on win32).
However there is a workaround that may work for you.
For the bug fixers the following two examples DO match packets correctly
:-
ipx[0:2] == "ff:ff"
ipx[0:8] == "ff:ff:00:72:03:11:0a:8f"
ipx[0] == "ff" && ipx [1] == "ff"
But the following DON'T match
ipx[0:] == "ff:ff"
ipx[0:1] == "ff:ff"
ipx[0:42] == "ff:ff"
It seems that an open ended range or a range that doesn't exactly match
the number of bytes in the match string doesn't work.
-----Original Message-----
From: Evers, John E. [mailto:JEVERS@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, 27 August 2002 7:44 AM
To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Ethereal-users] Find Frame / Filtering
Hi,
I do a lot of tracing which requires searching / filtering on the data
stream.
I have tried the "Find Frame" and "Filtering" options with the following
parameters.
smb[0:] == 43:00:6f:00:6d:00:6d:00: ;I copied the hex data stream
from
the hex data of a trace.
ip[0:] == 43:00:6f:00:6d:00:6d:00: ;I copied the hex data stream from
the
hex data of a trace.
tcp[0:] == 43:00:6f:00:6d:00:6d:00: ;I copied the hex data stream
from
the hex data of a trace.
data[0:] == 43:00:6f:00:6d:00:6d:00: ;I copied the hex data stream
from
the hex data of a trace.
I've have also tried to search for hex streams that were not separated
by the 00 hex characters as in the above example, same results.
Applying as a Filter displays no results and Find Frame responds with a
"No Packet Matched Filter" message.
I am guessing Ethereal dose not support this, but as it is important to
me I want to make sure before I abandon it for this application.
Thanks for any feed back.
John
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