Re: [Ethereal-users] Cryptic entries under network adapter?

["Loris Degioanni" <loris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please note that in Win32 pcap_lookupdev() returns, after the names of the
devices, the human readable strings describing each adapter.
Look at
file:///D:/work/DOC/web2_2/winpcap/docs/dll.htm#PacketGetAdapterNames for
the format of the data returned by the fuction: pcap_lookupdev() in Windows
is a wrapper of PacketGetAdapterNames().
Otherwise, look at the implementation of the -D flag in WinDump: I think
that a similar mechanism could be used in Ethereal.

Loris.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Mark Spencer" <dreadnought@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Cryptic entries under network adapter?


> On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 05:03:46AM -0400, Mark Spencer wrote:
> > I noticed on one of my notebook computers (Dell Inspiron 5000e running
W2K
> > and Xircom Realport 56/10/100 NIC) that the entries under the network
> > adapter option are rather cryptic.  Anyone know why this is,
>
> Because, unlike NT 4.0, NT 5.0^H^H^H^H^H^HWindows 2000 gives ugly names,
> apparently not intended for human use, to network interfaces.
>
> > and if more meaningful data can be displayed here?
>
> That depends on whether that data can be extracted from the OS.
> (Microsoft Network Monitor, on my W2K machine at work, displays a large
> pile of stuff about interfaces, but next to none of it seems
> particularly meaningful to me, at least when it comes to choosing an
> interface on which to capture....)
>
> > I jumped into the Etherpeek 4.1
> > evaluation and noticed it shows the descriptions (in English!) of each
of
> > the entries.
>
> To what sort of descriptions are you referring?  What's an example of
> such a description?
>
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