Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] NIC Manufacturer resolving

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

arv@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Sometimes instead manufacturer resolving I see IP address related to MAC address.

What do you mean by "IP address related to MAC address"?

If Ethereal displays an IP *address* - e.g., 192.168.0.1 - when it 
should be displaying a MAC address, that's a bug.

If, however, it displays a host name corresponding to an IP address, 
that's *not* a bug - if Ethereal sees an ARP packet that indicates that 
a particular IP address corresponds to a particular MAC address, and it 
can resolve the IP address in question to a name, it arranges to resolve 
that MAC address to the same name.