Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] network object names

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From: gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gilbert Ramirez Jr.)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 11:17:53 -0500 (CDT)
As Laurent Deniel said:
> 
> > And these name functions should be in a library separable from ethereal so
> > that they can be used in the library which we hope to replace libpcap with,
> > eventually.
>  
> Why do you want to use them in the library ? Maybe a simple replacement of 
> the logical name by the hardware address (at ethereal level) can be done 
> (e.g. for filters) ? 

that is true. I was hoping to make a patched tcpdump, too. :)

> In such a case, according to the length of the system-wide and per-user
> files, these names can be stored in another hash table in resolv.c 

that sounds good.

--gilbert

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