Gilbert Ramirez Jr. wrote:
>
> Has anyone given any thought to how ethereal might store names for IEEE 802
> hardware addresses? I would like to use a mnemonic for my NIC's hardware
> address.
>
Yes, I was thinking about it (when I wrote resolv.c)
> We could:
>
I prefer :
> 1. Use /etc/ethers (a system-wide text file)
&
> 3. Use a per-user text file.
(e.g. ~/.ethereal/ethers)
>
> BTW, hardware addresses are not useful just in the layer 2 link
> encapsulation. They are also useful inside the ARP, IPX, and BOOTP modules.
Yes.
> And these name functions should be in a library separable from ethereal so
> that they can be used in the library which we hope to replace libpcap with,
> eventually.
Why do you want to use them in the library ? Maybe a simple replacement of
the logical name by the hardware address (at ethereal level) can be done
(e.g. for filters) ?
In such a case, according to the length of the system-wide and per-user
files, these names can be stored in another hash table in resolv.c
(I have to implement tree other functions, one for resolving a logical name,
one for resolving an hardware address and another one for adding an entry in
the hash table (from the file parsing)).
Laurent.
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