Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Appletalk DDP and AARP support

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From: guy@xxxxxxxxxx (Guy Harris)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 15:13:03 -0700 (PDT)
>     ether_to_str() and ip_to_str() convert bytes in the packet data
>     array to ethernet and IP addresses.

...in printable form (colon-separated sextet for Ethernet/IEEE 802-style
addresses, dotted-quads for IP addresses).

He might end up adding "atalk_to_str()" routines for his code, to do the
same for AT addresses.

>   As far as I know, nobody has been working on this.  Guy suggested a
> while back that scripting support should be added, and to make graphs
> script-generated.

Actually, the wish list already suggested adding scripting support and
graphing support; I just noted that 1), with a sufficiently powerful
scripting language, could give you 2), and let you draw graphs not
thought of by any of the developers.