Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 11886] Capture filter applied on Capture Options page cann
Comment # 4
on bug 11886
from Jim Aragon
(In reply to Gerald Combs from comment #2)
I'm now using version 2.1.0-1601-g0cb2311 from 1/20/2015, which is a more
recent version than I was using when I reported the bug.
> What does the "Capture Filter" (right-most) column in the interface list
> show on your end? I can duplicate this here, but only if I set the
> per-interface filter to "icmp" for my capture interface and clear the
> default filter at the bottom of the dialog. This appears to be a combination
> of the following behaviors:
Well, if I've selected an interface, then the Capture Filter column shows
whatever I type into the "Capture Filter for selected Interfaces" box.
>
> 1) Unless you notice the horizontal scroll bar and use it, it's not obvious
> that we have per-interface filters or that a specific interface has a filter
> applied. Fixing this might mean rearranging the UI, e.g. by making each
> configuration option a subtree item under each interface.
>
> 2) Typing into the default filter entry updates the per-interface filter for
> each selected interface. We shouldn't do this.
I'm not sure why you say we shouldn't do this, since the input box at the
bottom of the window is labeled "Capture Filter for selected Interfaces," which
implies that that's exactly what will happen. This page would, however, be
easier to understand if, as you suggested above, applying per-interface capture
filters was done as a sub-item under each interface.
In any case, having installed a more recent version, I was seeing somewhat
different behavior, and it was taking me a long time to write up exactly what
was happening. However, I opened the preferences file in a text editor and
deleted the string under "Interface capture filter."
The Capture Options page now seems to be working as expected. That is, I can
now clear capture filters and they don't keep returning. However, capture
filters applied on the Capture Options page have NO EFFECT. No matter what I
enter, ALL traffic is captured. (This was happening before I edited the
preferences file.)
This is probably a separate bug.
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