Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] How to set my device name with pcap_platform_finddevs()

["Varuna De Silva" <varunax@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I want to get the name of my device in capture->interfaces

> As long as you've modified libpcap/WinPcap so that pcap_findalldevs()  
adds your device to the list of available  > devices, it should be  
displayed in Capture -> Interfaces and in the drop-down list in  
Capture -> Options.

I also found in a previous mailing list in wireshark the following,

> You'd also want to modify the "pcap_platform_finddevs()" routine to, if 
 you were 
> building with support for the Septel cards, call a routine in 
"pcap-septel.c" to supply a 
> list of names for the Septel devices, so 
they show up
> when interfaces are enumerated (e.g., when Ethereal shows 
its drop-down list of interfaces, 
> or when Tethereal - o tcpdump, if you 
add SS7 decoding support to it - are run with the "-D" flag).  
> "pcap_add_if()" is the routine it' >  call to add an interface to the 
list; see, for example,     
> "dag_platform_finddevs()" in "pcap-dag.c".

I have few questions regarding this

1. How should I work around so that pcap_findalldevs() will add my device in the list?

2. What is the relationship between pcap_platform_finddevs() and pcap_findalldevs() function
   in this regard ?

3. How should I modify "pcap_platform_finddevs()" so that I get my device added? do I need to 
do this? 

4. Where are these two functions written, (pcap_findalldevs() I found only in fad32! Sorry 
for this foolish question, But I was not able to figure it out)

Thanks 

Varuna