User Guide

Capturing Live Network Data
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Figure 4.1. The "Capture Interfaces" dialog box on Microsoft Windows
Figure 4.2. The "Capture Interfaces" dialog box on Unix/Linux
Device (Unix/Linux only) The interface device name.
Description The interface description provided by the operating system, or the
user defined comment added in Section 10.5.1, “Interface Options”.
IP The first IP address Wireshark could find for this interface. You can
click on the address to cycle through other addresses assigned to it,
if available. If no address could be found "none" will be displayed.
Packets The number of packets captured from this interface, since this
dialog was opened. Will be greyed out, if no packet was captured
in the last second.