On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 18:06:38 +0000, you wrote: >On Tuesday 20 Jan 2004 6:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Have just downloaded the latest version of Ethereal and installed it >> on NT4 workstation. Seems to capture and display data OK, but when I >> tried to set up some colour filters it keeps giving me the error: >> >> 'Filter "name" did not compile correctly. Please try again. Filter >> unchanged. Unexpected end of filter string' >> >> and won't store the filter expression. > >What is the filter string you are trying to use?
After posting the question I determined that the problem seems to be with the 'Add expression' function within the colour rules dialogue box (sorry but as I'm a novice with this currently I am using the GUI version as a quick way to get it running!) If I give a filter name of tcpdata (say) and then use the add expression button to create the filter string - and choose TCP in the left column, and 'is present' in the right column. The string is then created as 'filtertcp', which I originally thought was a predefined string for showing TCP traffic. However after a little more experimentation I realised that by just setting the string to 'tcp' it did what I wanted. So the main issue seems to be with the string definition via the GUI, which is a little unfortunate as it is a usability feature (but not the end of the world, provided you dig further). Just as a final check can anybody confirm that the issue that I'm seeing with filter string definition is happening with them also - or am I still doing something wrong? _______________________________________________ Ethereal-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ethereal.com/mailman/listinfo/ethereal-users
