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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] descriptive names for mac address

From: Martin Andersson <hello.martin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:57:10 +0200
Stephen Fisher wrote:
Yes, using the personal "ethers" file. The format is the same as the /etc/ethers file on a Unix machine (Basically a MAC address separated by colons, then a tab, then a descriptive name). The location for this file on Windows and Unix can be found here:

http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChAppFilesConfigurationSection.html
That worked perfectly to put it in ~/.wireshark/ethers

many thanks
/Martin