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Why sometimes Wireshark restarts after a profile change?

Sometimes Wireshark does not need to restart, other times it has to be restarted for a profile change to be effective. What is the hint?

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asked 2019-02-12 17:01:19 +0000, updated 2019-02-13 09:15:26 +0000
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What version of Wireshark are you running? Please post Wireshark's Help -> About Wireshark details. Also, what differences are there between profiles that aren't effective immediately when changing profiles?

cmaynard's avatar cmaynard (2019-02-12 22:11:30 +0000) edit
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I.e., the answer may be "because the Wireshark developers missed something in the code that handles some settings that can be changed by a profile change, so that the profile change doesn't cause an update"; if you can indicate what settings change in a profile change, but don't have that change take effect until after a restart, that would make it easier to find something we missed.

Guy Harris's avatar Guy Harris (2019-02-13 03:45:28 +0000) edit
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You can switch

from a profile with nameres.mac_name: TRUE to a profle with nameres.mac_name: FALSE

without restarting Wireshark. But just the first time (say when Wireshark starts by using a "TRUE" profile).

From then, every boolean change requires a restart, even from TRUE to FALSE.

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That's not a feature, as far as I'm concerned. Please file a bug on that on the Wireshark Bugzilla.

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answered 2019-02-13 19:27:27 +0000
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