Basically, I was inspired by the neat IO-STAT feature, but it does not allow (yet :) filter expressions to be counted...
Regards, Olivier -----Original Message----- From: Ronnie Sahlberg Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Wish List: count the occurrences of <display filterexpression> IO STAT for both ethereal and tethereal can already do this. see manpage It can however only count the number of times a specific field occurs in the captures, not how many times an expression evaluates to true. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Biot Olivier" Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 10:14 PM Subject: [Ethereal-dev] Wish List: count the occurrences of <display filterexpression> > Hi all, > > I often have the need of counting the occurrences of some filterable thing > happen in a capture. It would be nice to have this implemented. I suppose > going through the packet list is fairly simple, but write the graphical > front-end requires GTK programming... Which I do not master (yet :) > > As packets can be encapsulated within packets, we really need to count the > number of matching frames and the total number of occurrences. > > Should this be part of the Tools->statistics, or could we always write this > type of info in some status line at the bottom of Ethereal? > > Regards, > > Olivier
