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

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:10:37AM +0200, Hannes Gredler wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 02:20:56PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> | No, but your patch isn't there, either.
> 
> b/c it has not yet been committed, i.e. i have working code;

I suspect Joerg is looking at writing working code for his proposal; if
not, I'll look into it (and into adding the appropriate entries, and
perhaps some *additional* entries, to the manuf file).

> correct ... somebody has to do it collect all the MAC addresses, who will
> do it

The same person who would collect those addresses and wire them into
code.

> again, ask the question the other way ... why are more choices *bad* here;
>   following real-life logic here ... choice is always good;

I don't consider "choice is always good" a true statement; sometimes
choice is good, sometimes simplicity is good, and sometimes simplicity
means "fewer choices".

If mechanism A can do a job, I don't see any requirement for adding a
second mechanism that can do the same job (programmers can register MAC
addresses by adding entries to the manuf files, so mechanism A certainly
does *that* job).