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authorChuck Craft <bubbasnmp@gmail.com>2021-06-29 08:20:53 -0500
committerWireshark GitLab Utility <gerald+gitlab-utility@wireshark.org>2021-06-29 18:00:59 +0000
commit1caa05116b9c9321c1dd3b2efe64155c4b31c962 (patch)
treeeee1b7171b5b79c2bed4a9d5275ae3f4d97c7d60 /doc
parent820faa177737a0735e7d9e4a88f0e0caee449a1c (diff)
docs: wireshark-filter - update man page
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diff --git a/doc/wireshark-filter.pod b/doc/wireshark-filter.pod
index 231c3d6a21..32f7abc4c6 100644
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+++ b/doc/wireshark-filter.pod
@@ -188,15 +188,15 @@ eq, ne, gt, ge, lt, and le. The IPv4 address is stored in host order,
so you do not have to worry about the endianness of an IPv4 address
when using it in a display filter.
-Classless InterDomain Routing (CIDR) notation can be used to test if an
+Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) notation can be used to test if an
IPv4 address is in a certain subnet. For example, this display filter
-will find all packets in the 129.111 Class-B network:
+will find all packets in the 129.111 network:
ip.addr == 129.111.0.0/16
Remember, the number after the slash represents the number of bits used
to represent the network. CIDR notation can also be used with
-hostnames, as in this example of finding IP addresses on the same Class C
+hostnames, as in this example of finding IP addresses on the same
network as 'sneezy' (requires that 'sneezy' resolve to an IP address for filter to be valid):
ip.addr eq sneezy/24
@@ -205,10 +205,10 @@ The CIDR notation can only be used on IP addresses or hostnames, not in
variable names. So, a display filter like "ip.src/24 == ip.dst/24" is
not valid (yet).
-IPX networks are represented by unsigned 32-bit integers. Most likely
-you will be using hexadecimal when testing IPX network values:
+Transaction and other IDs are often represented by unsigned 16 or 32 bit integers
+and formatted as a hexadecimal string with "0x" prefix:
- ipx.src.net == 0xc0a82c00
+ (dhcp.id == 0xfe089c15) || (ip.id == 0x0373)
Strings are enclosed in double quotes: