Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] A GUI suggestion

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:15:49 +0200
Michael Tuexen wrote:


Dear all,
I often running multiple instances of Ethereal sniffing on different interfaces. Therefore it would be very helpful to have on the main window and on the capture window an indication on which interface packets are/were captured. Once it is saved 
to a file this information is not needed anymore.

Any thoughts, anyone interested in implementing it?


Hi Micheal!

I did some changes to the capture dialogs before, and could change it.
I think some other infos in the capture dialog would be useful as well, like the current capture file name. So it might even be helpful to have *all* infos from the capture start dialog available. But I currently don't have a really good idea to put this into a usable GUI design.
But please remember, that interface names can be very long on win32 platforms (and maybe on other platforms, too). 

However, why do you need multiple capturing instances?
Do you capture from multiple files and merge into one file later? I'm still thinking (for quite a while now), about implementing the ability to capture from multiple interfaces at once, so the changes to the main window title might not be necessary then. 


So, lot of questions remaining about this...

Regards, ULFL