Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Request for Change

["John McDermott" <jjm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I understand the issue of slow starts when one cannot resolve names.  I 
have solved the problem by making Windows and Linux shortcuts that have 
the selected options.  I personally always start with display in real 
time set.  (I use -n -S)

--john

Joerg Mayer wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 09:43:31AM -0600, Greg Morris wrote:
>
> > Yes, I know that you can turn this off... I was requesting that it be
> > turned off by default and that if someone wants this capability they can
> > turn it on. Perhaps what might be a better solution is that the name
> > resolves be enabled by default on capture and disabled by default on an
> > open... What do you think? :@)
>
>
> Greg, while this may look  ok at first glance, I'm a fan of orthogonal
> command line options (which we don't have but I don't want to make things
> worse), so changing the default behaviour depending on whether we are
> doing one thing or another is not a good idea.

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