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Re: What's the point of "oui Unknown"?


From: Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:29:32 -0400


Rick Jones <rick.jones2 () hp com> wrote:
    >> It seems to me that without more robust support this is just annoying
    >> noise and, at the very least, the Unknown oui printing should be
    >> removed.
    >>
    >> Thoughts?

    > What would removing it do to scripts attempting to parse tcpdump
    > output?

I'm thinking that we leave the () there, and just make it blank when we don't
know rather than say "oui unknown".

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