Re: Mac Address -> human friendly string

[ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg () gmail com>]

Yes.

Mac address/prefix mapping to human string is done by the manuf file.

You can edit this file to have it display a certain name for specific
mac addresses.


On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Panagiotis Georgopoulos
<panos () comp lancs ac uk> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>
>
> What I am willing basically, is to be able to see a human friendly string in
> the source and destination files in my Wireshark captures so that I can
> debug easier what I see.
>
>
>
> I checked that I can enforce Wireshark to do a mac/ip layer resolution,
> however I don’t want it to try and do arp or dns request (and see the
> relevant packets in my log) and also because these requests won’t help (I
> don’t have a dns server and although IPs are a bit more readable they are
> not what I want).
>
>
>
> Is there  a way to statically direct Wireshark to change e.g.
> Netgear_2d:00:85 to “server” and Netgear_2c:ae:45 to “client” etc? Some
> settings somewhere or apply an appropriate filter ?
>
>
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
>
> Panos
>
>
>
> Ps. I am working in linux, so I was thinking whether there is a local file
> that linux checks before an arp request so that I can set the info I want
> there…?
>
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