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

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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:22:00 +0100
I thought of it as preference groups, saved in several files and so
that one can activate/deactivate them individualy (the individual
groups).

Some of this sets could be "factory settings" others the user might create.

The hard part (at least for me) is the GUI part of it...

On 3/14/06, Sake Blok <sake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
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