Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] is cfile.plist at all filled in in tethereal?

[John McDermott <jjm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Just an idea that I've been toying with for some time: Ideally the
> statistics should be generated for every protocol, not just a few ones
> and they should be one pass so that tethereal can use them too.
> In order to reduce the effort involved, this should either be done
> automatically, i.e. without changeing existing dissectors or in a
> manner that allows the necessary changes to the dissectors to be
> done via a script.

As long as we're making suggestions, I'd like to see some way to 
configure what shows up in that window (or in the list printed by 
tethereal).  Maybe a command line list like
 --show-stats IP,TCP,SNMP,H.323 (or a shorter name for those of us
				who like single char opts better...)
One could get even more general and have x slots with filters so a user 
could show the number of IPv4-TCP SYNs and the number of IPv6-TCP SYNS. 
Of course, that would mean evaluating up to X filters which might slow 
the code down significantly.
As an aside, I seldom look at the stats window when capturing live.  I 
generally only use it as a summary.  Maybe one option is to be able to 
turn it off when capturing and then do the processing at the end.

My USD0.02
--john

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