[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:55:09AM -0500, Brian Pavane wrote:
> I am currently working with ethereal-0.9.15 and libpcap-0.6.2 on a Sun 
> E250 running Debian Linux.  The machine has two ethernet interfaces, hme0 
> and hme1.

Wow.  SPARC Linux doesn't call all Ethernet interfaces "eth{N}"?

> When tethereal is started without the "-i" tag, it defaults to 
> hme0.  I would like to change it, to default to hme1, and compile it as 
> such, so I do not need to specify the "-i" tag upon each run of tethereal.

At least in 0.9.18 (I forget what version it was installed in), you can
set the default simply by

	1) starting Ethereal, selecting "Edit->Preferences", selecting
	   "Capture" in that dialog box, putting the interface you want
	   in as "Default interface:", clicking "Save", and clicking
	   "OK"

or

	2) editing "~/.ethereal/preferences if it exists, or creating it
	   if it doesn't (also creating "~/.ethereal" if it doesn't
	   exist) and:

		if there's a line with "capture.device" on it, putting
		the interface you want as the default as the interface
		on that line;

		if there isn't such a line, adding one of the form

			capture.device: {interface}

		where "{interface}" is the name of the interface you
		want.

This affects Ethereal *and* Tethereal.

1) is easier.  2) works if you don't have GTK+ and thus don't have
Ethereal.