[Ethereal-users] Cryptic entries under network adapter?

["Loris Degioanni" <loris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, wrong link.
The correct one is:
http://negroup-serv.polito.it/winpcap/docs/dll.htm#PacketGetAdapterNames

Loris.

> 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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