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Re: Display filters for application protocols
From: Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 10:56:18 -0800
On Mar 8, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Lukáš Oliva wrote:
actually this is what I somehow expected. Is there a way how to filter out just the packets I want? Like: filter out all frames containing LIR message but display only LIR messages?
No. Wireshark/TShark always displays the entire contents of the frame (and the contents of any packets whose reassembly is finished by that frame); there is no mechanism to selectively show only some parts of that frame.
I mean could I somehow filter this using capture filters (I think this is not possible, but just for sure) or how to use display filters with some more precise configuration saying display LIR messages only?
All that display filters do is filter which frames are shown. They do not filter which parts of the frame are shown (there's no notion in Wireshark's dissection engine of a filter applying to parts of a frame). All that capture filters do is filter which frames are captured. They do not filter which parts of those frames are captured (and it's not clear how they could do so). Display filters are a lot *less* powerful than some users think; they're not a magical tool that can perform arbitrary operations on packets, they're just filters to select which frames to show. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-users mailing list <wireshark-users () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-users mailto:wireshark-users-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
Current thread:
- Display filters for application protocols Lukáš Oliva (Mar 08)
- Re: Display filters for application protocols Chris Maynard (Mar 08)
- Re: Display filters for application protocols Jeff Morriss (Mar 08)
- Re: Display filters for application protocols Lukáš Oliva (Mar 08)
- Re: Display filters for application protocols Jeff Morriss (Mar 08)
- Re: Display filters for application protocols Stephen Fisher (Mar 08)
- Re: Display filters for application protocols Lukáš Oliva (Mar 08)
- Re: Display filters for application protocols Lukáš Oliva (Mar 08)
- Re: Display filters for application protocols Guy Harris (Mar 08)
- Re: Display filters for application protocols Sake Blok (Mar 08)
- Re: Display filters for application protocols Guy Harris (Mar 08)
- Re: Display filters for application protocols Sake Blok (Mar 08)
- Re: Display filters for application protocols Lukáš Oliva (Mar 08)