Selecting the Network Interface

On UNIX platforms with more than one network interface, use iniftst to determine the correct interface name.

On Windows platforms with more than one network interface, it is sometimes difficult to determine the correct interface name. The remainder of this section presents a method to determine it:

Procedure 

1.

If data capture appears correct, then the remaining steps are not needed. However, if the captured data is all zeroes, then specify a different network interface (using rvtrace -i). Only one of the interfaces carries the data that rvtrace requires.

2.

Install the WinDump utility from this URL:

   http://www.winpcap.org/windump/install/default.htm

3.

Use this command to obtain a list of interface names:

   windump -D

4.

Try each interface until the data appears reasonable.

Consider this example:

C:\>windump -D 
1.\Device\Packet_{D7308399-80B2-4CA1-A9E6-C90DD74511A8} (EL574ND4 Ethernet Adapter) 
2.\Device\Packet_NdisWanIp (NdisWan Adapter)
C:\>rvtrace -i \Device\Packet_{D7308399-80B2-4CA1-A9E6-C90DD74511A8}

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