Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 11733] Interface list doesn't show well when the list is v
Comment # 2
on bug 11733
from Guy Harris
(In reply to Roland Knall from comment #1)
> Not only that, but the sorting is also completely off. It should sort
> alphabetical by interface name, which it actually does not.
No, it should sort interfaces by the order in which libpcap/WinPcap provides
them; libpcap/WinPcap go through some effort to put the more useful interfaces
at the top - to quote the comment in libpcap for the routine that calculates
the figure of merit for an interface:
* The figure of merit, which is lower the "better" the interface is,
* has the uppermost bit set if the interface isn't running, the bit
* below that set if the interface isn't up, the bit below that set
* if the interface is a loopback interface, and the interface index
* in the 29 bits below that. (Yes, we assume u_int is 32 bits.)
Interfaces that aren't up really belong below interfaces that are up, and, once
that's done, loopback interfaces belong below non-loopback interfaces.
No, there's no API in libpcap to get its figure of merit value, but if you just
assign a figure of merit value of N-1 to the Nth interface in the list you get
from libpcap and sort by *that* value by default, you'll get the most useful
interfaces at the top.
Not only should the list in the main window be sorted that way, the list in
Capture -> Options should be sorted that way.
On my Mac, I *really* don't want to see awdl0 (Apple Wireless Direct Link) or
bridge0 (Thunderbolt bridge) before en0; en0 is the interface on which I'm most
likely to want to capture.
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