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Seems to be a bug in that dialog, for Windows at least.

On my (Win 10) system I can enter any of the 3 options below in the Default Interface field using the list provided in the comment by @bubbasnmp.

• The interface index e.g. for Ethernet it's "4"
• The interface friendly name, e.g. "Ethernet"
• The device name, e.g. "\Device\NPF_{xxxx-xxxx-xxx-xxx}"

Entering the combination of the friendly name and device in parethensis as is done by the droplist fails.

A bug for this should be raised on the Wireshark Bugzilla.

Seems to be a bug in that dialog, for Windows at least.

On my (Win 10) system I can enter any of the 3 options below in the Default Interface field using the list provided in the comment by @bubbasnmp.@bubbasnmp as an example. Your system may be different.

• The interface index e.g. for Ethernet it's "4"
• The interface friendly name, e.g. "Ethernet"
• The device name, e.g. "\Device\NPF_{xxxx-xxxx-xxx-xxx}"

Entering the combination of the friendly name and device in parethensis as is done by the droplist fails.

A bug for this should be raised on the Wireshark Bugzilla.