Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] packet capture from switches and other RMON devices

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From: guy@xxxxxxxxxx (Guy Harris)
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 14:47:57 -0700 (PDT)
> It _is_ a very simple filtering mechanism and pretty much kept me to
> filtering on the datalink-layer info (MAC addresses).

It could also filter on other fields *if* there aren't any packets with
variable-length headers (Token Ring with source routing, IP or TCP with
options) - I'm not sure that the filter-expression parser in "libpcap"
handles those either.