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diff --git a/doc/wireshark.pod.template b/doc/wireshark.pod.template index f4ec17f38d..d6493e51d7 100644 --- a/doc/wireshark.pod.template +++ b/doc/wireshark.pod.template @@ -2581,6 +2581,26 @@ Capture filter name resolution is handled by libpcap on UNIX-compatible systems and WinPcap on Windows. As such the Wireshark personal F<hosts> file will not be consulted for capture filter name resolution. +=item Name Resolution (subnets) + +If the an IPv4 address cannot be translated via name resolution (no exact +match is found) then a partial match is attempted via the F<subnets> file. + +Each line of this file consists of an IPv4 address, a subnet mask length +separated only by a / and a name separated by whitespace. While the address +must be a full IPv4 address, any values beyond the mask length are subsequently +ignored. + +An example is: + +# Comments must be prepended by the # sign! +192.168.0.0/24 ws_test_network + +A partially matched name will be printed as "subnet-name.remaining-address". +For example, "192.168.0.1" under the subnet above would be printed as +"ws_test_network.1"; if the mask length above had been 16 rather than 24, the +printed address would be ``ws_test_network.0.1". + =item Name Resolution (ethers) The F<ethers> files are consulted to correlate 6-byte hardware addresses to |