Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Opinions on solving bug #1375: Capture Options with many IP addresses scrolls of

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> Is there any reason why people care about the list of IP addresses  
> other than "I'm on a multi-homed machine, and I want to capture  
> traffic to and from machine YYY, so I need to know what the IP  
> addresses are for the interfaces, so I can figure out which interface  
> I need to capture on"?

Well, at least on my Windows PC, I like to see the IP address so I can 
know which of the extremely obscure names Windows gives to the 
interfaces is the one that's plugged in and in use.

On the typical multi-homed Unix boxes I use I like to see the IP 
addresses so I remember which network the interface is connected to. 
I'm not so worried about the host I want to capture to/from (which 
typically is available via multiple network paths anyway) but the network.