Thanks for the response. I looked the output of the ifconfig command and those interfaces are up but lack of IP address. But is this behaviour OK since you can still capture on those interfaces?
I posted a duplicated message on this topic due to mail delivery problem. Please ignore. Regards, Miha On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 08:46, Guy Harris wrote: > On Sep 22, 2003, at 3:42 AM, Miha Jemec wrote: > > > When trying to select an interface from the drop down list in the > > capture options window I only get 13 interfaces listed (from eth0 till > > eth12) although there are 21 installed (I have 5 D-link cards with 4 > > ethernet ports each plus onboard interface). Ifconfig shows me all 21 > > interfaces and the capturing also works if I insert them manually. > > > > Why are there some missing in the drop down list? > > If I correctly infer from "eth0 till eth12" that this is Linux > (although there also exists a certain BSD-based OS whose Ethernet > interfaces have names beginning with "eth", but I doubt you have a > heavily-loaded PowerMac or XServe :-)), the problem might be that those > interfaces lack IP addresses and thus might not show up with an > SIOCGIFCONF ioctl, which is what Ethereal uses to get the list of > interfaces. -- Miha Jemec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
