Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] display filter problem...

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From: "DAIGLE, ANDREW PAUL" <ADAIG90@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:09:46 -0600
Yes, build 17056 corrects the delay when entering a *legal* IP address in the display filter. Illegal addresses and hostnames still cause a delay, but that it is no different than 0.10.13.

Thanks Gerald!

http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/buildbot-builds/win32/?


-----Original Message-----
From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerald Combs
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 5:15 PM
To: Ethereal user support
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] display filter problem...

Jack Jackson wrote:
> At 03:14 AM 1/19/2006, Guy Harris wrote:
>> DAIGLE, ANDREW PAUL wrote:
>>
>>> Forgive me if I'm mis-reading your response, Guy, but this is a new
>>> issue that just started in version 0.10.14. Filter validation is
>>> certainly not new to 0.10.14, but the long delay when entering ip
>>> address filters is.
>>
>> Nope, it's not new in 0.10.14.  I just reproduced it with 0.10.13
>> (.13, not .14), on Windows XP.
>>
>> I wasn't seeing it before I turned on network name resolution.
>>
>> I started seeing it as soon as I turned it on.
> 
> Name resolution makes no difference for me (on Win XP).
> 
>>> I am still running version 0.10.13 on another machine and there is no
>>> delay whatsoever when entering the above display filter.
>>
>> Do you have network name resolution turned on?
>>
>> Did you try a filter such as 111.222.333.444 (yes, with something
>> that's an illegal dotted quad)?
> 
> The only thing that is slow is when digits are entered.  I can enter any
> number of non-digit characters and there is no delay.  A delay occurs as
> soon as I type the first digit after the ==.  See my previous message
> for a detailed explanation of when I see the delay.
> 
> It does NOT happen for me in 0.10.12 (I don't have 0.10.13 installed).

Can you try build 17056 or later from
http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/buildbot-builds/win32/?  I just
checked in a change that might help.

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