Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] tethereal uses too much memory to filter packets from file

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From: Sake Blok <sake@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:04:36 +0100
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:48:46AM +0100, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 12:52:11AM +0100, LEGO wrote:
> > > I think having a way to temporarely disable all the
> > > stateful tracking in tethereal with a command line
> > > option without changing the preference file would be
> > > useful, but is just my opinion.
> > 
> > It's mine too... But that's a big job.
> 
> Actually, not really: just add an optoin to specify the path to the
> config directory and create a preferece file that doesn't do any
> stateful things. After that just start tethereal with the path to the
> new config-directory.

Being able to select a preferences directory is on my wish-list too. 
Especially if the Decode-AS table will be saved in it as well. I do
troubleshooting for different companies, each using their own custom
ports for certain things...

I'm just not skilled enough yet to do that development myself :(


Cheers,  Sake