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author | guy <guy@f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7> | 2003-08-07 00:56:30 +0000 |
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committer | guy <guy@f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7> | 2003-08-07 00:56:30 +0000 |
commit | 9fe364d7995e7a77b9ccd3d66da624caf08dc6a4 (patch) | |
tree | 612e3e003f2abd914a97a6a0a612a1e73701b040 /doc | |
parent | b787dee8f7e112dcaf722273269a9dedd49a6797 (diff) |
Document the disabled_protos file and the fact that you can save the
list of disabled protocols.
git-svn-id: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/wireshark/trunk@8145 f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/ethereal.pod.template | 18 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/tethereal.pod.template | 10 |
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diff --git a/doc/ethereal.pod.template b/doc/ethereal.pod.template index 63f2a67af2..e5e8ebd90d 100644 --- a/doc/ethereal.pod.template +++ b/doc/ethereal.pod.template @@ -491,6 +491,9 @@ not be displayed. For example, disabling TCP will prevent the dissection and display of TCP, HTTP, SMTP, Telnet, and any other protocol exclusively dependent on TCP. +The list of protocols can be saved, so that Ethereal will start up with +the protocols in that list disabled. + =item Capture:Start Initiate a live packet capture (see L<"Capture Options"> below). A @@ -1496,6 +1499,21 @@ in the I<Edit:Preferences> dialog box, your personal preferences file will be overwritten with the new settings, destroying any comments that were in the file. +The disabled protocols file, which is F<$HOME/.ethereal/disabled_protos> +on UNIX-compatible systems and F<%APPDATA%\Ethereal\disabled_protos> +(or, if %APPDATA% isn't defined, F<%USERPROFILE%\Application +Data\Ethereal\disabled_protos>) on Windows systems, contain a list of +protocols that have been disabled, so that their dissectors are never +called. The file contains protocol names, one per line, where the +protocol name is the same name that would be used in a display filter +for the protocol. A B<#> character starts a comment that runs to the +end of the line. + +Note that whenever the disabled protocols list is saved by using the +I<Save> button in the I<Edit:Protocols> dialog box, your disabled +protocols file will be overwritten with the new settings, destroying any +comments that were in the file. + The F<ethers> file, which is found in the F</etc> directory on UNIX-compatible systems, and in the main installation directory (for example, F<C:\Program Files\Ethereal>) on Windows systems, is consulted diff --git a/doc/tethereal.pod.template b/doc/tethereal.pod.template index d24e8fe195..cef55deb78 100644 --- a/doc/tethereal.pod.template +++ b/doc/tethereal.pod.template @@ -831,6 +831,16 @@ B<Tethereal>'s default values; the personal preferences file is then read, if it exists, overriding default values and values read from the system-wide preference file. +The disabled protocols file, which is F<$HOME/.ethereal/disabled_protos> +on UNIX-compatible systems and F<%APPDATA%\Ethereal\disabled_protos> +(or, if %APPDATA% isn't defined, F<%USERPROFILE%\Application +Data\Ethereal\disabled_protos>) on Windows systems, contain a list of +protocols that have been disabled, so that their dissectors are never +called. The file contains protocol names, one per line, where the +protocol name is the same name that would be used in a display filter +for the protocol. A B<#> character starts a comment that runs to the +end of the line. + The F<ethers> file, which is found in the F</etc> directory on UNIX-compatible systems, and in the main installation directory (for example, F<C:\Program Files\Ethereal>) on Windows systems, is consulted |