Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] manuf file munging

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From: Chris Waters <chris.waters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:52:11 -0800
Hi,

The manufacturer names in the manuf file are often not all that helpful. For
example, any Linksys equipment shows up with an address like: The_93:45:34
since their name is "The Linksys Group".

Is the purpose of the manuf.tmpl file to provide replacement names for those
addresses that don't have good names?

Alternatively the make-manuf script could be modified to clean the names up:

* Convert to consistent case.
* Remove any leading "The ".
* Remove any punctuation.
* Replace any spaces with underscores.
* Truncate all names to a reasonable length, say 10 characters.

What do people think?

Regards,

Chris Waters

chris.waters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.networkchemistry.com