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

[Rick Jones <rick.jones2 () hp com>]

On 10/22/2014 10:29 AM, Michael Richardson wrote:
> 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".

I suppose that might be marginally less annoying, but then I don't use 
-e all that often in the first place.  Still, when I have, I've not been 
bothered by the oui unknown messages.

rick
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