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Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] patches to add interface descriptions

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 09:56:08 -0500 (CDT)

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Graham Bloice wrote:

> 3.  On Win32, get_interface_list() already adds an interface description
> that describes the NIC type.  Should the user entered description replace
> that text rather than adding to it when displaying the interface list in the
> capture dialog?

It would be nice (and possibly a bit less confusing) if the Win32 capture
dialog could use the same interface names as the Windows "Network and
Dial-up Connections" dialog.

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