Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 7374] Update interface lists on interface add/removal
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:36:21 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7374

--- Comment #4 from Michael Tüxen <tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2012-06-19 12:36:20 PDT ---
I have code to do this on Mac OS X and FreeBSD... However, currently the
interface stuff is
handled by dumpcap, not by Wireshark itself. If we rescan the local interfaces,
we use
dumpcap, which uses libpcap. Using a different method might result in some
inconsistencies.
I would prefer to use a single mechanism, not two.

It might be a possibility to use a mechanism to figure out that something might
have changed
(reading on a routing socket on *BSD, for example) and if there is an
indication that something
might have changed, use the current mechanism to do the rescan. This would
avoid inconsistencies.

Best regards
Michael

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