Hi,
One feature that I liked in NetMon that is not in Ethereal is good handling
of names for transmitting devices.
What I have in mind is an addresses databases.
When any dissector figures out a name for a party of any comminication, it
should register that in a names database.
Each party can have many names:
- Its MAC address, eg Ethernet, Frame, etc
- Its IP address
- Its DNS name
- Its NetBIOS name
- Its IPX name
- Etc
This will require that each dissector be given one of the names that have
already been discovered so it can look up the object in order to register
any new names.
The GUI should allow you to specify that any type of name be displayed, and
it would be nice to be able to list the objects in the database and their
attibutes.
Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
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