Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Gtk-Critical messages when dumpcap has insufficient privileg

From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 01:48:15 +0200
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 01:32:51AM +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 09:28:23PM +0200, Michael T?xen wrote:
> > I guess you have a preferred capture
> > interface, right? We put this interface on the ifaces list, since
> > it is equivalent to specifying it on the command line.
> > The same problem should occur when you specify interfaces on the command
> > line. So ifaces is set correctly (at least as intended), I think the
> > condition is wrong.
> 
> Same or possibly related bug: When building without USE_THREADS, I can't
> select an interface on the welcome screen because once I click start, the
> system complains that I may not have more than selected interface.

Having the default interface on the list by default isn't a good idea:
When selecting start the capture fails if the default interface is down.

Ciao
 Joerg

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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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