Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Weird default capture filter

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From: Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:08:58 +0100
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:00:01 -0600, Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> 
> > For some reason my default capture filter in Ethereal 0.10.10 is "not
> > ip host HOLAF".
> > Where can this default filter be deleted?
> 
> Are you running remotely?  If any of the environment variables listed at
> http://wiki.ethereal.com/CaptureFilters#head-857e33ab14de0141faabaa943bf155fafc9126ec
> are present, Ethereal assumes it's running via a remote connection and
> constructs a default capture filter in order to exclude its own session
> data.  Other than un-setting the offending environment variable(s),
> there isn't any way to disable this behavior at the present time.

Ah, thanks, that'd explain it.