Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] packet capture from switches and other RMON devices

[guy@xxxxxxxxxx (Guy Harris)]

> This sounds really nice.  As long as we're "dreaming": one item to consider 
> might be a display column to show whence the datagrams were captured.

We currently can capture only on one interface; one of the things
Gilbert wants for Wiretap is the ability to capture on more than one
interface, and, with that, and changes to Ethereal to support it, a
"which interface" column would be useful.

> It is 
> sometimes nice to know on what wire stuff shows up.  Maybe even a filter to 
> select only a particular capture device.

Capture filter or display filter?  You'd probably select the interfaces
on which to capture at the same time you set up a capture filter, so the
capture filter probably doesn't need it, but, again, it'd be nice for
the display filter.