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Re: Default interface in the "front page"?
From: Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 17:15:45 +0100
On 8 April 2013 15:11, Christopher Maynard <Christopher.Maynard () gtech com>wrote:
Jim Aragon <Jim@...> writes:At 09:11 PM 4/7/2013, Micheal Tuexen wrote:On Apr 8, 2013, at 2:22 AM, Jim Aragon wrote:If the user has not selected a default interface at EditPreferencesCapture, I'd vote to have Wireshark select the first interfacelisted. I would not select all interfaces. I thinksingle-interfacecapture is still more common, even on multiple interfacesystems.If the user has not selected a default interface at Edit -> Preferences -> Capture, I'd vote to have Wireshark select the first interface listed in which Wireshark determines that there are actually packets available to capture. This can be seen with Capture -> Interfaces (Ctrl-I). If no interfaces show packets, then Wireshark can probably just choose the first interface. - Chris As Jasper pointed out earlier in the thread, on Windows just choosing the
first item ins't likely to be a good idea. On my three machines to hand (1 laptop, 2 desktops, all "dev" machines rather than normal users) the laptop has a bluetooth adaptor listed first and one of the desktops has an "Adaptor for generic dialup and VPN capture" whatever that is (it's an old and very abused XP machine). If there's more than one interface, I'd much prefer the user to have to select one, rather than an automagic guess. I can just see the Ask Wireshark questions; "I've got a capture file but it doesn't contain the traffic I expected". We'll still have the "Why can't I start a capture questions" though. Graham
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- Re: Default interface in the "front page"?, (continued)
- Re: Default interface in the "front page"? Michael Tuexen (Apr 08)
- Re: Default interface in the "front page"? Jim Aragon (Apr 08)
- Re: Default interface in the "front page"? Michael Tuexen (Apr 08)
- Re: Default interface in the "front page"? Anders Broman (Apr 08)
- Re: Default interface in the "front page"? Michael Tuexen (Apr 08)
- Re: Default interface in the "front page"? Anders Broman (Apr 08)
- Re: Default interface in the "front page"? Michael Tuexen (Apr 08)
- Re: Default interface in the "front page"? Jasper Bongertz (Apr 08)
- Re: Default interface in the "front page"? Michael Tuexen (Apr 08)
- Re: Default interface in the "front page"? Christopher Maynard (Apr 08)
- Re: Default interface in the "front page"? Graham Bloice (Apr 08)
- Re: Default interface in the "front page"? Jim Aragon (Apr 08)
- Re: Default interface in the "front page"? Anders Broman (Apr 08)