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Re: Mac Address -> human friendly string
From: Sake Blok <sake () euronet nl>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 17:03:20 +0200
Hi Panos, Wireshark will look for the file ethers in your personal preferences directory (~/.wireshark/ if the default profile is used). SO each user can have its own mac->name table. Cheers, Sake On 11 mei 2010, at 14:57, Panagiotis Georgopoulos wrote:
That’s an excellent pointer, thanks Jaap! I’ve created an ethers file with the appropriate mac address and the name I want and works like a charm! However, do you have any idea why it works only when it is in /etc/ethers and not in wireshark/ethers ? It seems that Wireshark keeps neglecting the ethers file if it is in its installation directory, but consults it fine if it is moved in /etc/ Thanks, panos From: wireshark-users-bounces () wireshark org [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces () wireshark org] On Behalf Of Jaap Keuter Sent: 11 May 2010 13:24 To: Community support list for Wireshark Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] Mac Address -> human friendly string Hi, That's where the ethers file comes in, see the User's Guide 7.7.2 Thanks, Jaap On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:25:36 +0100, "Panagiotis Georgopoulos" <panos () comp lancs ac uk> wrote: Hello all, What I am willing basically, is to be able to see a human friendly string in the source and destination files in my Wireshark captures so that I can debug easier what I see. I checked that I can enforce Wireshark to do a mac/ip layer resolution, however I don’t want it to try and do arp or dns request (and see the relevant packets in my log) and also because these requests won’t help (I don’t have a dns server and although IPs are a bit more readable they are not what I want). Is there a way to statically direct Wireshark to change e.g. Netgear_2d:00:85 to “server” and Netgear_2c:ae:45 to “client” etc? Some settings somewhere or apply an appropriate filter ? Thanks a lot in advance, Panos Ps. I am working in linux, so I was thinking whether there is a local file that linux checks before an arp request so that I can set the info I want there…? ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-users mailing list <wireshark-users () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-users mailto:wireshark-users-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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Current thread:
- Mac Address -> human friendly string Panagiotis Georgopoulos (May 11)
- Re: Mac Address -> human friendly string ronnie sahlberg (May 11)
- Re: Mac Address -> human friendly string Jaap Keuter (May 11)
- Re: Mac Address -> human friendly string Panagiotis Georgopoulos (May 11)
- Re: Mac Address -> human friendly string Sake Blok (May 11)
- Re: Mac Address -> human friendly string Panagiotis Georgopoulos (May 11)