Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Ethereal - Displaying IPX Net names and hostnames in capture mode?

[Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 02:37:21PM -0600, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> 
> 
>         I added ethernet addresses to the /etc/ethers file of the capturing
> machine. In the source column of the display window I still get:
> 
>         4d271134.00a024aad8d5
> 
>         I would really like to get:
> 
>         engnet.engstation17

 
>         Are there other files I can edit that ethereal goes to for this 
> data? I
> would assume /etc/ethers and /etc/networks but I didnt think that those 
> files
> dealt with IPX stuff. I am specifcally talking about /etc/networks. Is 
> there
> any way to get this translation? Even if I have to make my own tables for
> ethernet addresses and IPX network numbers it is fine.
> 

I can fix it for MAC addresses, but there's no way to specify the names
for IPX networks.  We could add support for an /etc/ipxnet file or
something. There's no standard way of resolving names for IPX, so
we'll have to make our own.

What OS are you using? The Linux IPX tools have an 'slist' command that
can get us the names of file servers. We could also send IPX packets just
like slist, in order to lookup server names.  I once wrote a program for Linux
that would find *all* servers on an IPX internetwork. (it's very easy; you
just have to send the right IPX packet). AIX has an IPX API as well, but
I have no documentation on it.

--gilbert