Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Setting own names in the display

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From: David O Shea <david_oshea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 4 May 2001 15:12:10 -0700
"Chris Foulds" <Chris.Foulds@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:

> In the display window how can I give MAC addresses my own names instead of the 
> one resolved from the network?. 
> Any help would be appreciated 

In your home directory, there should be a ".ethereal" directory, created by Ethereal the first time you ran it (if you're a Windows directory, Ethereal finds your home directory by combining the environment variables HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH).  Create a file in that ".ethereal" directory called "ethers" with lines of the following format:

12:34:56:78:9A:BC       somedevice

You can also add comment lines starting with "#".

If you want, you can also put stuff like this in a file called /etc/ethers if you want all users of your machine to have those values (I suppose some operating system out there uses a file called /etc/ethers?).

Regards,
David

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