Yeah. It seems to be a bit on the ugly side... From reading other posts, i seems there are a lot of GUIDs and that most of them aren't "real" in the sense that they aren't associated with any hardware.
If I have 10 network interfaces on a Windows box, are they all named something like "Local something-or-other"? Other posts seem to indicate that you can rename your connections. On 3/13/2013 10:32 PM, Charles Hanes wrote: > Alan, > > Only a little bit. I don't have much experience with network device naming > in Windows. > > This issue appears to be a fairly common one. Here is a link to someone with > the same problem -- finding a device name that pcap will take on Windows. It > involves looking in the registry to find the device instance for the local > area connection and then using the value with the braces, the GUID, with the > "\\Device\\NPF_" prepended. > > http://shad0wbq.blogspot.com/2006/06/windump-finding-pcap-device-mapping.html > > -Charles > > On Mar 13, 2013, at 8:20 PM, Alan Robertson wrote: > >> On 3/13/2013 2:03 PM, Alan Robertson wrote: >>> On 03/13/2013 08:37 AM, Roger Massey wrote: >>> >>>> Some of my changes were probably not windows specific but more ipv6-ipv4. >>>> >>>> One interesting thing - pcap_create("eth0" ...) doesn't work (I need >>>> to try "any" or "all"). What does work for me is the ever popular >>>> pcap_create("\\Device\\NPF_{6A452F03-14BC-45EB-A6E6-0261AB51273B}" >>>> ...). Getting a list of these things is easy but pragmatically picking >>>> the right one is not (I chose the on >> Charles: >> >> Do you have any insight into this device naming business? >> >> -- Alan Robertson >> [email protected] _______________________________________________ Assimilation mailing list - Discovery-Driven Monitoring [email protected] http://lists.community.tummy.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/assimilation http://assimmon.org/
