"The_93:45:34" is not too useful as teh result of mac name resolution.
you suggestion sounds very reasonable. please provide a patch. From: "Chris Waters" Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 6:52 AM Subject: [Ethereal-dev] manuf file munging > Hi, > > The manufacturer names in the manuf file are often not all that helpful. For > example, any Linksys equipment shows up with an address like: The_93:45:34 > since their name is "The Linksys Group". > > Is the purpose of the manuf.tmpl file to provide replacement names for those > addresses that don't have good names? > > Alternatively the make-manuf script could be modified to clean the names up: > > * Convert to consistent case. > * Remove any leading "The ". > * Remove any punctuation. > * Replace any spaces with underscores. > * Truncate all names to a reasonable length, say 10 characters. > > What do people think? >
