Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] resolving of well-known mac-addresses

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:20:56 -0700
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:15:55PM +0200, Hannes Gredler wrote:
> i scanned the cvs repository and did not find a ethers file that comes
>   with the standard distribution;
>   - so the file is not there yet;

No, but your patch isn't there, either.

>   - who takes care to set it up / bundle it with the distribution ?

It's like any other configuration file.  If by "set it up" you mean
"maintain it", who takes care to maintain *code* to put those entries
in?

> secondly it would be possibly for a dissector to compute names;
>   - a good example of this is the cisco HSRP / VRRP protocol:
>     the MAC addresses [i'll stick with the HSRP example] follows the
>     convention 00:00:0c:07:ac:<group> so the dissector could
>     register the name All-HSRP-group-xx-routers for all
>     256 MAC addresses much more simpler than writing 256 lines
>     in a file;

The lines can be written to a file with a program, so that's simple as
well.

>   all i am asking is freedom of choice .... and i really can't understand
>   why this is bad ?

Why have N mechanisms when one will do?  (I.e., I can't really
understand why One More Choice is *good* here.)