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

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From: Khachaturov Vassilii <Vassilii.Khachaturov@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:05:35 -0400
> 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...)

See also the thread "using Ethereal for generating trace files etc ..."
started by Richard Sharpe.

> 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.

I think you're confusing the short stats window updated during the capture
and the Tools->Protocol Hierarchy Statistics window here.