Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] resolving of well-known mac-addresses

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 23:35:23 +0200
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:15:55PM +0200, Hannes Gredler wrote:
> i scanned the cvs repository and did not find a ethers file that comes
>   with the standard distribution;
>   - so the file is not there yet;
>   - who takes care to set it up / bundle it with the distribution ?

I was thinking about the manuf file. This file is used in epan/resolv.c
What I was thinking about was to allow longer (up to 6 bytes) mac
entries in that file. Add the length to the mac-to-name struct and
fix the resulting functions acordingly. The name resolving code is
very modular and I doubt that you'd need to change anything outside
resolv.c
I'm a bit tired right now, so I'm not too sure I'm typing what I'm
thinking of :-)

  Ciao
     Jörg

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Joerg Mayer                                          <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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