Translating Ethereal Adapter Names to Windows System Names

Translating Ethereal Adapter Names to Windows System Names

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Translating Ethereal Adapter Names to Windows System Names Will 07-10-2006
Posted by Will on July 10, 2006, 4:04 am
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Etherneal 0.99 under Windows uses very strange obfuscated names for each
network adapter port. Apparently the long alphanumeric string identifier
to identify unique port instances of each card type is not a Mac address.
How does a Windows user translate these Ethereal port names into the names
that Windows uses in Network Connections?

--
Will



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Posted by on July 12, 2006, 3:11 pm
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Will wrote:
> Etherneal 0.99 under Windows uses very strange obfuscated names for each
> network adapter port. Apparently the long alphanumeric string identifier
> to identify unique port instances of each card type is not a Mac address.
> How does a Windows user translate these Ethereal port names into the names
> that Windows uses in Network Connections?

When I use windump OR Ethereal I see an adaptor description
that allows me to identify the correct adaptor. I have one Intel
and one Compaq.

Also:-
The registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\

(in my case) contains all of the configuration details for the
interface including
the IP address which will allow you to unambiguously identify the
adaptor.

Clearly if you needed to do this a lot you would want a better tool.

It MUST I guess be possible to set the description somewhere?


C:\Program Files\nMap>windump -D
1.\Device\NPF_GenericDialupAdapter (Generic dialup adapter)
2.\Device\NPF_ (Compaq
Ethernet/Fast Ether
net Adapter/Module (Microsoft's Packet Scheduler) )
3.\Device\NPF_ (Broadcom
NetXtreme Gigabit
Ethernet Driver (Microsoft's Packet Scheduler) )

I use Etherel from time to time and I don't have a major
problem with this.


Posted by Will on July 12, 2006, 10:26 pm
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> When I use windump OR Ethereal I see an adaptor description
> that allows me to identify the correct adaptor. I have one Intel
> and one Compaq.
>
> Also:-
> The registry key
>
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interf
aces\
>
> (in my case) contains all of the configuration details for the
> interface including
> the IP address which will allow you to unambiguously identify the
> adaptor.
>
> Clearly if you needed to do this a lot you would want a better tool.

I guess when you are using ethereal on a firewall where there are 10 plus
ethernets, it's a pretty nasty problem.

As a worst case, couldn't the ethereal developers let the user specify some
kind of nickname for each adapter, and then present that nickname in the
list of networks to sniff?

--
Will



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