Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 3413] display interface comment on command-line
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3413
--- Comment #3 from Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2012-10-01 11:20:04 PDT ---
> Running on Windows Vista
...which means that the interface device names are ugly strings with a GUID in
them, and thus not particularly useful, and that the description as provided by
WinPcap might be something useless such as "Microsoft", due to a WinPcap issue.
This might be best addressed, at least on Windows, by fixing bug 6645, so that
the user can set the names of the "connections" associated with the interfaces
- i.e., the "friendly names" - in Control Panel and have them show up in
Wireshark as well as in various other places in the system.
On UN*X, the device names are somewhat less ugly; some UN*Xes also have
"friendly names" (OS X assigns system-generated names that we could probably
fetch from the System Configuration framework, and FreeBSD and OpenBSD have
per-interface ioctls to set and get a description string, which I think can be
set with ifconfig and which newer versions of libpcap fetch for use as the
description string).
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