Re: [tcpdump-workers] jump to a packet flag

2004-07-01 Thread Darren Reed
In some email I received from alex medvedev, sie wrote: > hallo, > > any interest in having a -j flag in tcpdump? > > the flag would simply jump over the specified number of packets. > it may be useful when reading dumps with -r flag. > it may also be useful in conjuction with -c flag to isolate

Re: [tcpdump-workers] jump to a packet flag

2004-07-01 Thread Guy Harris
On Jul 1, 2004, at 12:18 PM, alex medvedev wrote: this, however, does not work well with relative seq numbers in tcp packets [maybe smth else too?]. Anything that maintains and uses state information between packets wouldn't work. However, what could be done would be something that still runs the

[tcpdump-workers] jump to a packet flag

2004-07-01 Thread alex medvedev
hallo, any interest in having a -j flag in tcpdump? the flag would simply jump over the specified number of packets. it may be useful when reading dumps with -r flag. it may also be useful in conjuction with -c flag to isolate certain interval from a dump. a callback function called spin() could