But i really want to resolve Ethernet MAC addresses into IP addresses or
into host names. Maybe i did not make this clear. Yes Ethereal does resolve
IP addresses into host name under some circumstances in my setup.
But my current problem is that it is unable to display the IP addresses of
certain packets (MPLS) just the MAC address and i want to resolve this into
amore readable form.
ThanKs!
Greg.
-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 22 March 2001 00:32
To: Greg Osinaike
Cc: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] resolving HW (MAC) addresses
> I'm monitoring MPLS packets using Etherreal 0.8.10. It seems that
Etherreal
> cannot read the IP source, destination or port addresses only the source
and
> destination MAC addresses.
Ethereal can resolve IP addresses iff other programs using the same
routines can resolve them.
What happens if you try to use, for example, "nslookup" (available on
most UNIX systems, as well as Windows NT/2K) to look up the host name
corresponding to those IP addresses?
If it doesn't work, it won't work in Ethereal, either. Do whatever is
necessary to arrange that it work with "nslookup" (I don't know what
that would be, as this might be an issue with your site *or* with the
DNS server for whatever IP addresses you're trying to resolve), and
Ethereal will probably work as well.
> This is fine but I really need to see the destination IP address and/or
host
> name.
Then you will need to do whatever is necessary to cause the standard
UNIX or Windows IP-address-to-name routines to be able to convert the IP
addresses in question to host names.