Guy Harris wrote: > On Feb 14, 2007, at 2:59 PM, Hank Leininger wrote: > > >> Hm, I'm afraid I'm too much of a wireshark n00b to know what you >> mean by >> 'capture live list'. >> > > I think he means the list of interfaces on which you can capture. > > Yes, the menu item: Capture / Interfaces ... >> I didn't find anything by that name in the 0.99.5 >> sources. Anyway, are these cases where you know there is some design >> problem with migrating them to using dumpcap, or just cases where the >> migration work isn't done yet, but is somewhere on the roadmap? >> > > There's no inherent problem with doing that in dumpcap; there needs to > be a way to ask dumpcap to give a list of interfaces (written to the > standard output) in a form that Wireshark can use to generate the drop- > down list of interfaces. > > Note that this format will probably change over time, as it also needs > to supply interface properties, and the list of interface properties > will probably grow over time. > dumpcap is already capable of giving the list of interfaces, but it's probably still missing some of the properties (not sure - IP address comes to my mind). WS certainly won't call for that list or properties.
There's no problem I see that can't be solved, but it's still a *lot* of work to be done to make it complete. Although it's on the roadmap I don't know anyone working on this. The problem is that you can only loose on this topic - the best way you can implement it is that it's just working as before - but you can break a lot very easily. As I only earned complains about my work on this topic (this doesn't work, that doesn't work, this doesn't work as in the last release, ...) I don't feel any motivation myself to continue working on it - there are just more interesting fields where I'll even get personal benefit from - compared to that it only works as before ... Regards, ULFL _______________________________________________ Wireshark-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users
