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From: tkevans@oss670.UUCP (Tim Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: convert Ethernet numbers into ASCII text
Message-ID: <9@oss670.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 91 15:45:46 GMT
References: <9104191903.AA21173@hitl.vrnet.washington.edu>
Organization: Social Security Admin., Baltimore/Washington
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davidd@HITL.VRNET.WASHINGTON.EDU (David Doll) writes:


>	I'm going to be bringing a network analyzer (sniffer) into our 
>department and it displays the Ethernet number (for example: 8:0:2b:18:96:bf).
>I would prefer to look at the host name (for example: foo.cs.washington.edu).
>So what I  would like to be able to do is to get the names from all the 
>machine numbers in the department (~100 or so). Has anybody did this or know
>how or know what to do...?

My sniffer (a Tektronix) allows a disk file to be set up on it which
contains hardware-to-hostname mappings.  Once you go through the
exercise of gathering this info, save it!  I'd think other sniffers
would allow this same capability.

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