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Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Re: Fiber channel ids and logical names.

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From: ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 05:09:04 -0400
unfortunately it is not possible.

it would be very useful if someone would develop a generic api where
users can define mappings between addresses and names.
a framework generic enough to be able to handle 
arp->ip mapping
ip->hostname
fc wwn -> hostname

etc etc.



On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:11:56 -0800, "Rueda, Astolfo (SEA)"
<ARueda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is there a way to assign friendly names to different fcids and not loose
> them, so during a trace I can see host1, host2..etc?
> TIA
> 
> Astolfo Rueda
> Network Administrator
> Preston | Gates | Ellis LLP
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