Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Interfaces ??

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 00:33:08 -0700
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:56:30AM +0200, emu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Ok, that sounds as a good explanation. But still, from where does it finds
> the names of those interfaces.

>From WinPcap, which is the library it uses to capture packets on
Windows.

WinPcap gets them from the "packet.dll" library, via a
"PacketGetAdapterNames()" call.

Both the Windows OT and Windows NT versions of the "packet.dll" library
get it from various information in the registry.

The information in the registry was put there by the OS, so, it
ultimately gets the names from the OS.