Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] show hostname in window title - feature/patch submission

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan Jennings wrote:

> The attached patch allows you to easily see which copy of Ethereal 
> you're manipulating (by looking at the window title) if you have 
> multiple Ethereal instances open on your desktop that are running on 
> multiple machines.

If the two instances have different files open, so that the title (which 
shows the file name) is different in the windows, is that necessary?

I.e., should it just add the host name if it's running a capture or if 
it has a capture that hasn't been saved (i.e., if there's no file name)?

> It doesn't handle differentiating multiple instances 
> running on the same machine.

The file name should handle that if it has a saved file - and, 
otherwise, the name of the interface on which it's capturing or on which 
it captured, and possibly also the filter expression, might help there.

> The patch also adds a user preference to show the local machine's host 
> name in full or short format.

If we only show it when the file name is missing, is there any need to 
have the preference have a "don't show the host name" choice?  (And 
should the choice be "fully-qualified domain name" vs. something else, 
e.g. "unqualified domain name"?

> I tested it on FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE only.

I suspect most, if not all, of the UN*Xes we support have 
"gethostname()".  Winsock 2 has it, also, and we might require Winsock 2 
(or WinPcap might require it), which I think causes a problem for 
Windows 95, but we *might* be able to bundle Microsoft's add-on Winsock 
2 for W95, assuming that our installer can be made to install it only if 
necessary *and* Microsoft's license for the add-on doesn't get in the 
way (I think it predates their anti-GPL licenses).