Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Selecting an interface

[Naszáli Zoltán <naszali@xxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Harris" <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Naszáli Zoltán" <naszali@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Selecting an interface


> On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 03:02:53PM +0200, Naszáli Zoltán wrote:
> > I can't select a valid interface in Capture/Start drop-down list.  My
> > Win'98 SE box connected to two network segment via two RTL 8139 cards.
> > All the two interface appears in the list -with same name-, but I cannot
> > select the second one (wich is the last element of the drop-down list).
>
> If they have the same name, this probably means that WinPcap can't
> distinguish between them, which means it can't open any of them other
> than the first one.
>
> Try installing WinDump:
> ...

As you wrote, WinDump works only on first interface, independently from
given if. reference number.