Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Interface names in Windows

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Dave Pollak wrote:

> Thanks, Guy. tethereal -D works. However, the name is 50 characters 
> long or more. The adapter was number 2 in my list but neither -i 2 or 
> -1 2. was successful. Ethereal told me that it could not find the 
> specified adapter.
>  
> I tried using the name that shows up in the Interface field on the 
> Capture Options page, which is only about 20 characters long, but that 
> didn't work either.
>  
> Any other suggestions?
>  
> I've also thought I ought to be able to use the Task scheduler to 
> start the Ethereal GUI if I could figure out how to set the options 
> so, for example, it would know what capture filter to use and when to 
> stop capturing.
>  

AFAIK, you'll have to use the interface GUID (the strange 
character/number/... combination) for the -i parameter.

There is already a WishList entry (http://wiki.ethereal.com/WishList 
General/#16) to be able to use e.g. "-i 2", but having it on the 
WishList doesn't mean it will be implemented in the near future.

BTW: AFAI remember, Windows is annoyingly tumbling around the sequence 
of the interfaces, if you enable/disable them (which I've do quite often).

Regards, ULFL