Mac Address -> human friendly string

["Panagiotis Georgopoulos" <panos () comp lancs ac uk>]

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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