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| author | Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@ulticom.com> | 2010-04-12 21:35:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@ulticom.com> | 2010-04-12 21:35:19 +0000 |
| commit | a1353706dc2f9daf155fea41386ae78bdc43165f (patch) | |
| tree | 5eb20e75eef57abfc9ced57dfc0c2cce282e500b /doc/wireshark.pod.template | |
| parent | d05485a32b55f781dd05bbdafcb574c625a648fb (diff) | |
Point out that hostname and MAC address resolution in capture filters will not
use any of the Wireshark "personal" files.
This helps to address the complaint in:
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2904
svn path=/trunk/; revision=32452
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/wireshark.pod.template')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/wireshark.pod.template | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/wireshark.pod.template b/doc/wireshark.pod.template index adc4088db7..9ad54f5ff4 100644 --- a/doc/wireshark.pod.template +++ b/doc/wireshark.pod.template @@ -2428,6 +2428,10 @@ attempts are made to resolve them. The file has the standard F<hosts> file syntax; each line contains one IP address and name, separated by whitespace. The same directory as for the personal preferences file is used. +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 (ethers) The F<ethers> files are consulted to correlate 6-byte hardware addresses to @@ -2451,6 +2455,10 @@ example, F<C:\Program Files\Wireshark>) on Windows systems. The personal F<ethers> file is looked for in the same directory as the personal preferences file. +Capture filter name resolution is handled by libpcap on UNIX-compatible +systems and WinPCAP on Windows. As such the Wireshark personal F<ethers> file +will not be consulted for capture filter name resolution. + =item Name Resolution (manuf) The F<manuf> file is used to match the 3-byte vendor portion of a 6-byte |