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

[Ian Schorr <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does anyone see a reason why we can't either disable that behavior or 
at least make it optional?

I have yet to run into a situation where I wanted the hostname, but 
plenty of situations where I wanted the OUI resolved and couldn't see 
it.

IIRC it also does this if one has network name resolution disabled, 
which I actually *would* consider a bug (or at least a bad idea).

Ian

On Oct 17, 2004, at 6:00 PM, Guy Harris wrote:

> 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.
>
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