Re: [Wireshark-dev] Enable extcap by default or not

2016-09-09 Thread Roland Knall
No, it just means, that extcap interfaces are either available by default or not. They do not run permanently. regards On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 8:02 PM, Bill Meier wrote: > On 9/9/2016 1:42 AM, Roland Knall wrote: > >> Hello List >> >> There is currently a discussion going on

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Enable extcap by default or not

2016-09-09 Thread Bill Meier
On 9/9/2016 1:42 AM, Roland Knall wrote: Hello List There is currently a discussion going on in https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/17498 in regard to enabling extcap features by default or not. There are basically two sides to the argument: Cons - extcap interfaces are advanced features,

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Enable extcap by default or not

2016-09-09 Thread Steve Karg
Hi Roland, For the BACnet mstpcap (RS485 serial packetizer, third party, open source), the users currently just drag-n-drop the mstpcap.exe file into the extcap folder, and it starts working as it should when Wireshark is launched. It only adds interfaces if the PC has serial ports

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Enable extcap by default or not

2016-09-09 Thread Alexis La Goutte
I prefer disable by default (to avoid a lot of interface) But add a advanced option/tab is also a good idea or add on list interface a button to enable extcap After don't forget when a preference is enable, the setting is kept (only need to enable extcap for the first start...) Cheers On Fri,

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Enable extcap by default or not

2016-09-09 Thread Roland Knall
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Graham Bloice wrote: > > >> > I vote for disable by default, I feel that the extcap interfaces are > superfluous and confusing to most of the users I support as they are for > "niche" purposes. > > I don't follow the argument that a

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Enable extcap by default or not

2016-09-09 Thread Dario Lombardo
Even if I am not strong on that, I'd vote for enable by default. I admin that some of them are specific (like ciscodump or androiddump), but I consider others like sshdump and randpktdump pretty general. Having them hidden by default would limit their use. New users will never notice this new

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Enable extcap by default or not

2016-09-09 Thread Graham Bloice
On 9 September 2016 at 06:42, Roland Knall wrote: > Hello List > > There is currently a discussion going on in https://code.wireshark.org/ > review/#/c/17498 in regard to enabling extcap features by default or not. > > There are basically two sides to the argument: > > Cons -

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Enable extcap by default or not

2016-09-09 Thread Michal Labedzki
Hello, I vote for "Enable for default" and please remember that I am creator of one of them - androiddump. It provides interfaces like libpcap (aka normal Wireshark interfaces) and more (Logcat). So I want to have it out of box. (cons: may generate a lot of interfaces... for 2 Android devices

[Wireshark-dev] Enable extcap by default or not

2016-09-08 Thread Roland Knall
Hello List There is currently a discussion going on in https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/17498 in regard to enabling extcap features by default or not. There are basically two sides to the argument: Cons - extcap interfaces are advanced features, which will not be used by a majority of