Ulf,
see my comments in-line.
Best regards
Michael
On Apr 12, 2004, at 8:15 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote:
Michael Tuexen wrote:
Dear all,
I often running multiple instances of Ethereal sniffing on different
interfaces.
Therefore it would be very helpful to have on the main window and on
the capture
window an indication on which interface packets are/were captured.
Once it is saved
to a file this information is not needed anymore.
Any thoughts, anyone interested in implementing it?
Hi Micheal!
I did some changes to the capture dialogs before, and could change it.
I think some other infos in the capture dialog would be useful as
well, like the current capture file name. So it might even be helpful
to have *all* infos from the capture start dialog available. But I
currently don't have a really good idea to put this into a usable GUI
design.
I was thinking about putting the interface name in the window title.
But please remember, that interface names can be very long on win32
platforms (and maybe on other platforms, too).
On the unix boxes I used the names are normally short. And I do not use
Windows...
However, why do you need multiple capturing instances?
Mainly two reasons:
On FreeBSD Router Boxes with a lot of virtual interfaces. I want to
sniff only one
one particular interace per window. This could be overcome to sniff on
the parent
interface but then I do not have the traffic in different windows.
The second reason is to capture traffic on a box having multiple (2-3)
interfaces. And
I need the traffic of all interfaces.
Do you capture from multiple files and merge into one file later? I'm
still thinking (for quite a while now),
I do not merge them. I'm normally analyzing the traces and discard
them. It is for
debugging mainly.
about implementing the ability to capture from multiple interfaces at
once, so the changes to the main window title might not be necessary
then.
That would be nice, but I think it is not that easy. It is much easier
and faster to add the names to the
window titles.
So, lot of questions remaining about this...
Regards, ULFL
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