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Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Re: ip addresses in parenthesis in Internet Protocol frames

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From: ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:44:16 -0400
Edit/Preferences/NameResolution

(you probably dont want to use it since it may affect performance  
but try it for a while)


On 6/30/05, John Que <qwejohn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks a lot fot the (rapid) answer.
> I am quite a newbie to ethereal :May I ask: How do you 
> enable name resolution for ip addresses ? 
> 
> John
> 
> On 6/30/05, ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > enable name resolution for ip addresses and you will see how they differ.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 6/30/05, John Que <qwejohn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >  When I try to read the contentns of pacekets sent by IP with Ethereal
> > > Sniffer I always see that in the lower windows , when displaying
> > > the IP addresses of src and reciever, the same addresses appear
> > > also in parenthesis.
> > >
> > > For examplle:
> > >
> > > Frame 15...
> > > Ethernet II
> > > Internet Protocol,Src Addr: 192.168.0.56 (192.168.0.56), Dst Adr
> > > 192.168.0.13 (192.168.0.13).
> > >
> > > What is he meaning of this ip addresses in parenthesis? are the always
> > > the same as the non-parenthesis IP addreses?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > John
> > >
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