Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Interface not displayed in Capture->Start combobox

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From: steve glass <stiabhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 12:29:00 +1000
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Guy Harris wrote in response to my wibble:

|> Ethereal isn't listing my WLAN interface in the Capture->Start dialog. However, if I enter the interface name by hand (eth1) it will sniff successfully. "tethereal -D" also does not list eth1.
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| What do
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|     tethereal -v

tethereal 0.10.0a
Compiled with GLib 2.2.1, with libpcap 0.8, with libz 1.1.4, without libpcre,
without UCSD-SNMP or Net-SNMP, without ADNS.
NOTE: this build does not support the "matches" operator
for Ethereal filter syntax.

Running with libpcap version 0.8 on linux-2.4.23-sg

| and
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|     ifconfig -a
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| print?


eth0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:40:64:7E:4E
~   inet addr: 10.0.0.128  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
~   UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500  Metric:1
~   RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
~   TX packets:0 errors:10 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:20
~   collissions:0 txqueuelen:1000
~   RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)   TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
~   Interrupt: 28 Base address:0x6000

eth1: Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-02-2D-3D-2F-E9-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
~   UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
~   RX packets:372 errors:0 dropped:372 overruns:0 frame:0
~   TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
~   collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
~   RX bytes:78120 (76.2Kb)   TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
~   Interrupt: 23 Base address:0x100

lo   Link encap:Local Loopback
~   inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
~   UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
~   RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
~   TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
~   collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
~   RX bytes:1454 (1.4 Kb)  TX bytes:1454 (1.4 Kb)

Hope this helps.

Many thanks,

Steve
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