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Local area connection 2 is not showing up for me in my capture screen. How do I enable it?

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I am trying to do an assignment for school. I need to do a capture assignment using local area connection 2. Please help!

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asked 2023-07-21 01:23:27 +0000
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Assuming you're on Windows, have you got npcap installed as well? Do you see any interfaces?

Jaap's avatar Jaap (2023-07-21 04:36:27 +0000) edit

I do have npcap installed. The only options I have are ethernet, adapter for loopback traffic capture, local area connection 9, 8, 7, 10 and 1, wifi, ethernet 2, and Bluetooth network connection.

melimels's avatar melimels (2023-07-21 05:04:05 +0000) edit

What is the output of ipconfig/all on your machine?

What is the output of tshark -D on your machine? (You might have to give the full path for tshark, for example, \"Program Files"\Wireshark\tshark" -D.)

Guy Harris's avatar Guy Harris (2023-07-21 05:31:04 +0000) edit

Sounds like school needs to upgrade their instructions. These days Windows makes very creative mess of the interfaces. So it is anyone's guess what interface(s) your machine will come up with.

Assume you must capture traffic on a second interface and document how you do it and how you found out the name.

hugo.vanderkooij's avatar hugo.vanderkooij (2023-07-21 07:03:18 +0000) edit

I agree Hugo. My teacher also just tells me to google it, so it's very frustrating.

melimels's avatar melimels (2023-07-21 07:35:06 +0000) edit
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There doesn't appear to be a "Local Area Connection 2" adapter on your machine, so Hugo's answer:

Sounds like school needs to upgrade their instructions. These days Windows makes very creative mess of the interfaces. So it is anyone's guess what interface(s) your machine will come up with. Assume you must capture traffic on a second interface and document how you do it and how you found out the name.

appears to be the correct answer here.

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answered 2023-07-24 18:37:47 +0000
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