Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] A GUI suggestion

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Michael Tuexen wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I often running multiple instances of Ethereal sniffing on different 
> interfaces.
> Therefore it would be very helpful to have on the main window and on 
> the capture
> window an indication on which interface packets are/were captured. 
> Once it is saved
> to a file this information is not needed anymore.
>
> Any thoughts, anyone interested in implementing it?
Hi Micheal!

I did some changes to the capture dialogs before, and could change it.

I think some other infos in the capture dialog would be useful as well, 
like the current capture file name. So it might even be helpful to have 
*all* infos from the capture start dialog available. But I currently 
don't have a really good idea to put this into a usable GUI design.

But please remember, that interface names can be very long on win32 
platforms (and maybe on other platforms, too).

However, why do you need multiple capturing instances?
Do you capture from multiple files and merge into one file later? I'm 
still thinking (for quite a while now), about implementing the ability 
to capture from multiple interfaces at once, so the changes to the main 
window title might not be necessary then.


So, lot of questions remaining about this...

Regards, ULFL