Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 2622] New: Support for IAB MAC address resolution

Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:44:51 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2622

           Summary: Support for IAB MAC address resolution
           Product: Wireshark
           Version: SVN
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: Low
         Component: Wireshark
        AssignedTo: wireshark-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: TBoehne@xxxxxxxx
        Depends on: 2619


Build Information:
N/A
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Currently, wireshark only uses the OUI listings provided by IEEE. IEEE
also provides listings with the IABs in a similar format as the OUI
listings. I would like wireshark to support MAC address resolution based on the
IAB listings in addition to the OUI listings.

For more information on IABs, see
http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/faqs.html#q10 . 

The list of IABs is available at:

http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/iab.txt

The current OUI list has 11580 entries, the current IAB list has 2351
entries. 

I think it would be trivial to add MAC-Address lookup support for the
IAB address range, but the lookup table would grow significantly -
this might lead to worse performance. On the other hand, for best
possible performace MAC address resolution should be turned off
anyway.


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