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

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:36:01 -0700
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 12:46:41PM +0200, Hannes Gredler wrote:
> what i am saying does not contradict do what you are saying :-);
>   i like the fallback idea ....

It's *not* a fallback!   It's intended to be *the* way to register
well-known MAC addresses.

> non-programmers can do it that way ... no problem with that, however if
> a programmer wants to register his MAC addresses in the code we should permit
> that freedom of choice

But why would they want to do so, given that it's easier to do so by
tweaking a file?

Furthermore, doing it in the file would let you add well-known MAC
addresses even for protocols we *don't* currently dissect.