On Mar 22, 2010, at 1:40 PM, Maynard, Chris wrote:
> If I load a capture file then bring up the “Capture -> Options” dialog, it
> forces all packets to be re-processed. I was just wondering why that
> happens. Is that expected behavior or should I file a bug report for it? It
> seems like a bug to me as I can’t figure out why it would need to reprocess
> all the packets in that case. It’s particularly annoying if you’ve got a
> large capture file opened and only wanted to check the capture options used,
> not actually start a new capture.
My guess is that
1) bringing up the dialog box changes a capture preference
and
2) *any* change to *any* preference, even if it's not a protocol
preference, causes packets to be reprocessed
but I could be wrong.
In any case, that seems pretty bogus, so file a bug.
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