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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Relabeling or defining "aliases" to packets

From: Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:48:50 -0700
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 11:31:18PM -0800, ColfaxNet Support wrote:

> Once something about a packet is identified, we could then label the
> packets that contain the same criteria as a name such as "test
> computer", etc. This would make is much easier to be able to glance at
> the capture window and to determine what device is creating that
> particular packet. This labeling would also be able to be viewed in
> the different report screens. 

This is not currently possible.

> One of the other capture programs calls this function creating an
> alias.

What do you mean by creating an alias?


Steve