On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 02:31:12PM -0500, Jim Harvey wrote:
> gram@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 01:47:36PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > 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?
> > >
> >
> > 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.
>
> If you use /etc/ethers make sure you keep a backup copy, this seems to
> get overwritten every time you install an upgrade.
Overwritten by what? We don't have an ethers file that comes with
the Ethereal distribution. Are you installing this from our source,
or from someone's binary distribution? We do install a manuf file, but
not ethers.
--gilbert
