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Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] ethenet adapters not displaying in capture w indow

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:00:59 -0700
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 05:44:19PM +0100, Alistair.McGlinchy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> As a more convenient workaround (especially when you suffer the enormous
> device strings that Windows provides) you could manually edit the ethereal
> "preferences" file to force Ethereal to use eth1

Or select "Preferences" from the "Edit" menu, select "Capture" in the
list of preference items in the preferences dialog box, type "eth1" in
the "Interface:" box, click "Save", and click "OK".