Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] TCP port display filter bug?

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From: Richard Urwin <RUrwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 14:32:11 -0000
The display filter "tcp.port != 5900" looks for a source or destination
port that is not 5900. This will match on almost every packet.
Try "tcp.srcport != 5900 && tcp.dstport != 5900"

--
Richard Urwin, Private
"No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato."



-----Original Message-----
From: Ulf Lamping [mailto:ulf.lamping@xxxxxx]
Sent: 05 November 2002 11:43
To: Ethereal
Subject: [Ethereal-users] TCP port display filter bug?


Hi List!

When I play around with a remote machine using VNC,
there is a huge load of traffic on TCP port 5900 (the VNC data port).

Usually I am not interested in this traffic, but in some other data,
so I try to filter out all traffic from/to port 5900.

With a capture filter, I am using: "not port 5900" which is doing well
at capture time.

BUT: when I try to use a display filter "tcp.port != 5900",
I would expect the same filtering result, but this doesn't seem to have
any effect.
No packets are filtered at all (as far as I can see).

The display filter syntax "tcp.port <> 5900" will result in a syntax
error.

IS THIS A BUG?!? Or a feature :-) Or am I missing something?

Regards, ULFL
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