Re: Provision to filter the packets based on the value of specific protocol for custom dissector.

[Stephen Fisher <steve () stephen-fisher com>]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 03:55:02PM -0500, Mrunal Upadhyay wrote:

> Yes that is absolutely correct. It would have been great if the users 
> can filter the packets from the UI screen itself just by filtering 
> from the UI on the basis of the protocol value. And if I need to do it 
> for a custom dissector are there any ways to do it?

Adding this functionality would work for both built-in and custom 
dissectors.  The protocol column is just a text string, which isn't 
necessarily the same as the display filter, which is what would be 
filtered, which makes it non-trivial to implement.
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