https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5806
Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
See Also| |https://bugs.wireshark.org/
| |bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66
| |45
Resolution| |DUPLICATE
--- Comment #5 from Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2012-09-24 23:35:45 PDT ---
Actually, the bug as submitted is more like bug 6645, in that what "Windows XP
lists" are probably the "friendly names", given that one translates as "Local
Area Connection", which is the standard name English-language versions of NT 5
and 6, at least, slap on your main LAN interface, whereas what Wireshark lists
are the "vendor descriptions" (going by the OID name
OID_GEN_VENDOR_DESCRIPTION, which is what WinPcap fetches - it looks at the
registry key I mentioned, but *not* for descriptive strings) or "driver
descriptions" (going by the registry key DriverDesc in the per-interface
entries *under* that key, which appear to contain those names), and bug 6645
contains work on code to have Wireshark fetch the "friendly names".
Closing this as a dup of 6645, as that has more information, as well as work on
a fix. Ultimately, there should be libpcap/WinPcap APIs that return the
friendly name (if available for the interface in question on the OS on which
it's running) and the vendor description/driver description (if available for
the interface in question on the OS on which it's running) and let the
application choose which of those to display (probably "friendly name if
available, otherwise vendor/driver description if available, otherwise the raw
name").
Bug 6051 is a separate problem, which apparently only shows up on NT 6 -
Windows Vista and later (and the server versions thereof).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 6645 ***
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