Re: [jerryt@netapp.com: Re: [ethereal-dev] Ethereal 0.7.0 released]

[Ashok Narayanan <ashokn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Very interesting for two reasons:

1) Somebody else actually uses "match selected" :-)

2) The bug needs to be fixed. Match Selected didn't use display
filters last I heard; unless somebody rewrote it. 

-Ashok

Gilbert Ramirez writes:
 > Here's an early report of a bug in 0.7.0. It probably has everything
 > to do with the display filter code. I won't be able to look at it until
 > late this evening or tomorrow, but in case anyone is interested, here's
 > the report.
 > 
 > --gilbert
 > 
 > ----- Forwarded message from Jerry Talkington <jerryt@xxxxxxxxxx> -----
 > 
 > From: Jerry Talkington <jerryt@xxxxxxxxxx>
 > Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 01:18:43 -0500
 > To: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
 > Subject: Re: [ethereal-dev] Ethereal 0.7.0 released
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Howdy Gilbert!
 > 
 > I just tried 0.7.0, and it crashed ;(
 > 
 > I loaded up a 6.6M file, and everthing worked fine, until I chose a source
 > port and "match selected".  My memory usage shot through the roof, nearly
 > filling up swap before I caught it.  I fired up 0.6.3 as a sanity check,
 > and it worked fine (this is what I was using previously to check out the
 > trace).
 > 
 > I'm on Linux 2.2.10, on a dual PII-450 with 256M RAM.  Let me know if there
 > is something more you need to know, or if there is a better way to report
 > something like this.
 > 
 > * Gilbert Ramirez (gram@xxxxxxxxxx) done spit this rhetoric:
 > > I released 0.7.0 tonight. It should appear on freshmeat
 > > and ethereal-announce soon.
 > >
 > > Here's a list of the projects that I could remember
 > > that we're thinking about:
 > >
 > >
 > > Defragging fragmented packets and sending them
 > > through the dissectors again (logical view of transmissions,
 > > instead of "physical" packets)
 > >
 > > Color support
 > >
 > > Loadable dissector modules
 > >
 > > Protocol description language
 > >
 > > Supporting the new win32 libpcap
 > >
 > > Printing of selected packets
 > >
 > > GUI filter creator
 > >
 > > Remove race-condition in creation of temporary pcap capture.
 > >
 > > Wiretap to support capturing
 > >
 > > And of course, new protocol dissectors are always welcome!
 > >
 > >
 > > In the immediate future, I'm going to work on enhancing
 > > the display filter and proto_tree code, and try to move all
 > > the GTK code to a subdirectory, to make the top-level
 > > source GUI-independent. I'd really like to see a curses
 > > ethereal in the far-off future, and this is the first step.
 > >
 > > --gilbert
 > >
 > >
 > 
 > --
 > Jerry Talkington
 > NetCache Escalation Engineer
 > Network Appliance, Inc.
 > 
 > "I'll be your huckleberry."
 >         - Larry "Sparc-ee" Armstrong
 > 
 > ----- End forwarded message -----

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