Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 4601] Capture Interfaces window displays only one IP addre
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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:16:25 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4601

Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
           Platform|Other                       |All
         Resolution|FIXED                       |
            Summary|Interface names are not     |Capture Interfaces window
                   |displayed correctly         |displays only one IP
                   |                            |address for each adapter.
         OS/Version|Windows 7                   |All
           Severity|Normal                      |Enhancement

--- Comment #20 from Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2012-09-25 00:16:24 PDT ---
OK:

The "interfaces are just called "Microsoft" or "Sun" issue, as shown in the
Description column in attachment 4427 "Capture Interfaces window - screen shot"
and as shown in attachment 4433 "Only generic interface names in drop down menu
in Capture Options", is probably, for some of the interfaces, bug 6051, wherein
WinPcap returns "Microsoft", rather than the adapter's vendor/driver
description, as the description.

The completely blank description, as shown in those attachments, might be a bug
in the Marvell driver (or .inf file), where it might be supplying a blank
description, as per bug 4155; we've fixed the *Wireshark* bug wherein a blank
description caused a crash, but getting a better description might require a
fix for bug 6645, so that we supply a "friendly name" if available.

The IPv4 addresses not showing up in "Capture Interfaces" is a function of that
dialog only displaying the *first* IP address it finds, which is the
(link-local) IPv6 address.  Perhaps it should display all the addresses and/or
eliminate link-local addresses.

I'll reopen this bug, and retitle it so that it refers to the "not all IP
addresses are displayed in the Capture Interfaces dialog" issue, as the other
issues are handled by the other bugs listed above.  I'll tag it as an
enhancement.

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