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Re: What's the point of "oui Unknown"?
From: Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:07:09 -0400
Hannes Gredler <hannes () juniper net> wrote: > | Because this feels like a half-implemented feature that turns into | > an annoyance. Can we just remove the "Unknown" printing? > i don't find it annoying ;-) - also it appears that this is the first > "annoyance" report after 9 years. > | I also don't see a really good way to solve the problem you | want > solved (though I don't realy want it solved...). > | > | One approach would be to do a realtime lookup of OUIs, | such as in > the DNS. > wireshark periodically pulls in the OUI HTML page from IEEE and then > does some AWK magic to extract the OUI/string tuples ... > | Put them in OUI.ARPA (or oui.tcpdump.org) and look them up | when -n > is not specified? Maybe? > hmm perhaps we can add a check that -n flag also turns off local OUI If there was energy for oui.tcpdump.org, I'm pretty sure that I can some places with big DNS infrastructure to host it. If the AWK script can generate a DNS table, having that lookup out there is actually really really valuable. In the interim, I suggest removing the word "oui", and also the "unknown" string. We'll report the things in our table, and just won't bother with bytes of output that don't help. -- ] Never tell me the odds! | ipv6 mesh networks [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works | network architect [ ] mcr () sandelman ca http://www.sandelman.ca/ | ruby on rails [ _______________________________________________ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers
Current thread:
- What's the point of "oui Unknown"? John Hawkinson (Oct 17)
- Re: What's the point of "oui Unknown"? Hannes Gredler (Oct 22)
- Re: What's the point of "oui Unknown"? John Hawkinson (Oct 22)
- Re: What's the point of "oui Unknown"? Hannes Gredler (Oct 22)
- Re: What's the point of "oui Unknown"? Michael Richardson (Oct 22)
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- Re: What's the point of "oui Unknown"? Michael Richardson (Oct 22)
- Re: What's the point of "oui Unknown"? John Hawkinson (Oct 22)
- Re: What's the point of "oui Unknown"? Hannes Gredler (Oct 22)
- Re: What's the point of "oui Unknown"? Michael Richardson (Oct 22)
- Re: What's the point of "oui Unknown"? Rick Jones (Oct 22)
- Re: What's the point of "oui Unknown"? John Hawkinson (Oct 22)