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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Default interface in the "front page"?

From: Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 14:37:05 +0200
On Apr 8, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Anders Broman wrote:

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Tuexen
> Sent: den 8 april 2013 10:40
> To: Community support list for Wireshark
> Cc: Irene Rüngeler
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] Default interface in the "front page"?
> 
> On Apr 8, 2013, at 9:10 AM, Jim Aragon wrote:
> 
>> At 09:11 PM 4/7/2013, Micheal Tuexen wrote:
>> 
>>> On Apr 8, 2013, at 2:22 AM, Jim Aragon wrote:
>> 
>>>> If the user has not selected a default interface at Edit Preferences 
>>>> Capture, I'd vote to have Wireshark select the first interface 
>>>> listed. I would not select all interfaces. I think single-interface 
>>>> capture is still more common, even on multiple interface systems.
>> 
>>> I would prefer to follow what the user has configured. No default interface.
>>> 
>>> How about on a single-interface system? Maybe Wireshark should at least select the only listed interface as the default on a single-interface system. That IS going to be the interface that the user selects before >each capture. 
>> 
>> Correct. But is there a system with only a single interface? All the systems I use have a loopback interface and at least one more... Since I'm not using Solaris, I can always capture on two interfaces at least. Are >there systems out there with only a single interface?
> 
> On windows(?).
Possibly (not using Windows)...
> 
> BTW even if I have a default interface in my preferences on Windows I can't just start the trace "No interface selected" ...
... which is fixed by Irene in
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=48788

Best regards
Michael
> 
>> On a multiple interface system, I can see the logic of either method--either selecting the first interface or selecting no interface if the user has not specified a default. Neither method is clearly superior and the choice of which should be implemented is a matter of opinion.
> OK.
> 
> Best regards
> Michael
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Jim
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