Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] filters in capture

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 09:02:17 -0500
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 03:15:07AM -0500, Daniel Ryde wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> First I must say that you are all doing a impressive job with etheral. I
> hope soon that I will be able to get some time and atlest do some packet
> decoders.
> 
> Well, about the capture... I'm unable to set a capture filter. It always
> returns an error: "Unable to parse filter string (parser error).".
> After a capture the filter works fine in the filter box on the main
> disply.

Can you give us an example of some of the capture filters that you have
tried? Look closely at the manpage... the capture filter syntax is
different from the display filter syntax. Are you using the display filter
syntax for capture filters?  Having two filter languages is bad, and
we hope to rectify that some time.

--gilbert