Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] name resoulition option

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From: "Erick B." <erickbe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 17:27:51 -0700 (PDT)
--- Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The name resoulition could go under the IP tab
> since
> > it's IP related. 
> 
> At least at present, it's IP-related, and it's
> TCP-related and
> UDP-related (converting TCP and UDP port numbers to
> service names), and
> it's IPv6-related, and it's Ethernet-related,
> and..., as it affects
> *all* those forms of name resolution.

LOL. Ok, so lets put it under the IP tab and call it
Enable DNS Lookups then perhaps another one called
Display port numbers or service names. 

On a seperate note, if I download the win32 source
code and get the GNU compilers can I compile my own
without needing a commercial compiler? I'd like to get
into the coding side of it. 

> Joerg Meyer sent in a patch a while ago (which I'll
> look at soon) which,
> as I remember, splits that into multiple options, so
> perhaps there we'd
> have separate ones with separate tabs (although I
> think he had one
> option to control all transport-layer resolution,
> for example, rather
> than separate flags for TCP and UDP).

Not familiar with this. 

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