On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 01:47:36PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
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>
> Let me start by saying that I love Ethereal. The first thing I did after
> purchasing my laptop was format the drive, put linux on it and compile
> Ethereal! I had a question about IPX protocol. I am watching my network
> here at the office and I have put static entries for all of the IP hosts on
> the network into my /etc/hosts file so that the live feed from ethereal is
> easier to read. Is there a way to map IPX addresses to a simple name, so I
> can see IPX traffic in real time w/easier names? I have captured tethereal
> feeds into a text file and then replaced the IPX information w/"human
> readible" names, but I would like to do this on the fly. Any suggestions?
>
> Sincerely,
> Paul Smith
>
Look at the FILES section of the ethereal man page. You can use
/etc/ethers and $HOME/.ethereal/ethers for the MAC addresses (IPX address),
and /etc/ipxnets or $HOME/.ethereal/ipxnets for IPX network numbers.
--gilbert
