Re: Default interface in the "front page"?

[Jim Aragon <Jim () agdatasystems com>]

On 4/8/2013 9:15 AM, Graham Bloice wrote:

> As Jasper pointed out earlier in the thread, on Windows just choosing
> the  first item ins't likely to be a good idea.  On my three machines to
> hand (1 laptop, 2 desktops, all "dev" machines rather than normal users)
> the laptop has a bluetooth adaptor listed first and one of the desktops
> has an "Adaptor for generic dialup and VPN capture" whatever that is
> (it's an old and very abused XP machine).
>
> If there's more than one interface, I'd much prefer the user to have to
> select one, rather than an automagic guess. I can just see the Ask
> Wireshark questions; "I've got a capture file but it doesn't contain the
> traffic I expected".  We'll still have the "Why can't I start a capture
> questions" though.

Points well taken, and I withdraw the suggestion. I now concur that 
selecting the first interface is not a good idea.

Regards,

Jim



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