Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 1459] The filter "ip.version == 6" doesn't work
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:54:35 +0000 (GMT)
http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1459





------- Comment #6 from jmayer@xxxxxxxxx  2007-03-30 07:54 GMT -------
Ah, OK, so it's the other way around: Add an ip.version to the ipv6 dissector.
No I'm not happy with that either, because it is a different protocol and if
someone wants to see ipv6 frames then just typing ipv6 instead of ip.version==6
would be somewhat more intuitive. Nobody would identify ipx by just saying
ip.version==15 and ip.hdr_len=15 and expecting this to work.
And the same goes for ipv6! Making a program user friendly doesn't mean that
you have to catch each and every corner case that one individual meets under
very specific (not to say broken) conditions.

Regarding the idea of only matching on ip.version in ipv6 packets: A very
strong no to that: So far we had *1* user who tried to identify ipv6 frames in
a rather broken capture which fails to identify the protocol type because it is
supposed to be ipv4 by DLT_TYPE. The idea of not being able to filter on any
element in an ipv6 packet with a filter that starts with "ipv6." is plain
wrong. *That* would be very user unfriendly.


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