On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 03:55:02PM -0500, Mrunal Upadhyay wrote:
> Yes that is absolutely correct. It would have been great if the users
> can filter the packets from the UI screen itself just by filtering
> from the UI on the basis of the protocol value. And if I need to do it
> for a custom dissector are there any ways to do it?
Adding this functionality would work for both built-in and custom
dissectors. The protocol column is just a text string, which isn't
necessarily the same as the display filter, which is what would be
filtered, which makes it non-trivial to implement.