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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 3666] Microsoft's OUI truncated to "Microsof"

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:51:49 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3666

--- Comment #14 from Chris Maynard <christopher.maynard@xxxxxxxxx> 2010-09-28 17:51:39 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #13)
> We'd want APIs to convert an OUI to a long name and to an abbreviated name, and
> use the abbreviated name when resolving MAC addresses and the long name in
> other places.

Or alternatively introduce a "max name length" option alongside the MAC name
resolution option, with the default set to 9 and a max of 64?

Either way, if we're going to allow longer names, the changes to make-manuf and
manuf will be needed regardless of the remainder of the changes ... won't they?

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