Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] quick question on Ethereal

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From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:57:50 +0800

Xiaoguang Liu wrote:
Well, is it possible Ethereal will add this feature. I really think the way Netmon does is quite convenient. it is not a good experience when you view trace in ethereal and then swith to notepad to add one extra entry to make the current view more friendly.

There's already a Wishlist item for this:

http://wiki.ethereal.com/WishList#head-71481751b5dbe70881096b76745d3e4bc12818ad

It's #17 under GUI related items.

So it seems that there's some interest in this feature, now there just needs to be someone to implement it... :-)

On 3/2/06, *Ulf Lamping* <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx <mailto:ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>> wrote:

    Rajesh Singh wrote:
     > Just had a quick question on Ethereal usage...
     >
     > When you are reviewing hundreds of frames, sometimes it is
    helpful to replace all
     > the IP Addresses with the user friendly machine name. In "Netmon"
    you can easily do
     > this by simply right clicking that IP address and selecting "Edit
    Address".
     >
     > How can we do the same in Ethereal?
     > I am sure there is some option, but I can't figure it out how to
    do this
    Ethereal usually uses name resolution for this (you did enabled this,
    don't you?).

    If that doesn't work (because the IP address is unknown to the DNS
    server), you can adjust the system hosts file in e.g.
    c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts or add a hosts file to your personal
    configuration folder (see Help/About/Folders to see where that is).

    There's no way to edit this in the GUI ...