Ethereal-dev: RE: [ethereal-dev] Ethereal - Displaying IPX Net names and hostna mes in captur

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From: "Farley, Tim (ISSAtlanta)" <TFarley@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 15:34:56 -0500 
>What worries me are the cases in which an address is used (perhaps by
>another host) *before* a name lookup is made. 

That's a good point.  In NETMON that's not a problem because displaying
names is a "live" thing that can be turned on and off via a menu item.  So
if you pick up a name somewhere in the capture, it essentially "goes back"
and updates all affected packets.  If you open the address book dialog and
edit a name, all affected displayed packets change as soon as you close the
dialog.

I guess in Ethereal you could do the two-pass thing you mentioned.  If you
are concerned abou this being time-consuming you could make it so the user
had to pick a menu item to "apply" new names to the display.

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