https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3666
--- Comment #8 from Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2009-07-07 23:53:46 PDT ---
> Note that in the examples Gerald gave both strings (raw data and interpreted manuf name) are of equal length.
That isn't going to be true if the interpreted manufacturer name is *shorter*
than 8 characters, so if it's an important feature, it's not a feature that
actually exists.
Perhaps, *when used in MAC addresses that aren't translated to host names*,
it's useful to have the manufacturer name truncated to a maximum of 8
characters, but in other contexts, such as 802.11 IEs, it serves no useful
purpose.
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