Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] GUI Change for Wireshark Remote Interfaces

From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:33:03 -0400


On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 7:14 AM, Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 12:57:53PM +0200, Roland Knall wrote:
> I've changed the title to something that helps me recognize it, but I can
> change it to something else.
>
> The show column is a duplicate of the list of interfaces in the first tab.
> The basic idea would be to manage all general issues of the interfaces
> (hide/show, comments, ...) in the first tab, use the second to add pipes
> and the third to remote interfaces.
>
> But on a more general note, as you cannot store the remote interfaces, why
> should you want to hide them? They are only valid in the current session
> anyway?

Not being able to store remote interface is probably a bug / missing
feature. See for example user responses at
https://ask.wireshark.org/questions/47141/remote-capture-on-startup