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

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From: John Que <qwejohn@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:32:21 -0400
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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