["Ronnie Sahlberg" <ronnie_sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"The_93:45:34" is not too useful as teh result of mac name resolution.

you suggestion sounds very reasonable.
please provide a patch.

From: "Chris Waters"
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 6:52 AM
Subject: [Ethereal-dev] manuf file munging


> 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?
>