ethernet.desc in iptraf-ng syntax error

[david]

Folks

I just tried iptraf-ng, coming from a working version of iptraf.  I 
found that the file, "ethernet.desc", is not being parsed correctly.

OS:  Centos 6.4 (same as RHEL 6.4)
iptraf version:  iptraf-ng-1.1.4-2.el6 (x86_64)

In iptraf, the ethernet description file consists of lies, each of 
which has the form:

<mac-address>:name
where:
   <mac-address> is 12 hex characters (I used all lower case)
   :  stands for an actual colon
   name is a printable name to be shown on the display.

Although I don't know what restrictions there are on 'name', in my 
case they consist of English letters, digits, underscore.

When the program runs, I get a very hard-to-read error message (it's 
pink on a red background) saying that it's an invalid MAC, and 
listing the MAC address, the colon and the first four characters of the name.

Please advise.

David

[Vitezslav Samel]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 09:13:55AM -0800, david wrote:
> Folks
>
> I just tried iptraf-ng, coming from a working version of iptraf.  I
> found that the file, "ethernet.desc", is not being parsed correctly.
>
> OS:  Centos 6.4 (same as RHEL 6.4)
> iptraf version:  iptraf-ng-1.1.4-2.el6 (x86_64)
>
> In iptraf, the ethernet description file consists of lies, each of
> which has the form:
>
> <mac-address>:name
> where:
>   <mac-address> is 12 hex characters (I used all lower case)
>   :  stands for an actual colon
>   name is a printable name to be shown on the display.
>
> Although I don't know what restrictions there are on 'name', in my
> case they consist of English letters, digits, underscore.
>
> When the program runs, I get a very hard-to-read error message (it's
> pink on a red background) saying that it's an invalid MAC, and
> listing the MAC address, the colon and the first four characters of
> the name.

In 1.1.4 version the "ethernet.desc" has another format and is not
backwards compatible. Now he format is the same as /etc/ethers file.
You need to rewrite the ethernet.desc to the new format or make new one
with iptraf-ng.

Cheers,
    	Vita

[Nikola Pajkovsky]

Vitezslav Samel  writes:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 09:13:55AM -0800, david wrote:
> > Folks
> >
> > I just tried iptraf-ng, coming from a working version of iptraf.  I
> > found that the file, "ethernet.desc", is not being parsed correctly.
> >
> > OS:  Centos 6.4 (same as RHEL 6.4)
> > iptraf version:  iptraf-ng-1.1.4-2.el6 (x86_64)
> >
> > In iptraf, the ethernet description file consists of lies, each of
> > which has the form:
> >
> > <mac-address>:name
> > where:
> >   <mac-address> is 12 hex characters (I used all lower case)
> >   :  stands for an actual colon
> >   name is a printable name to be shown on the display.
> >
> > Although I don't know what restrictions there are on 'name', in my
> > case they consist of English letters, digits, underscore.
> >
> > When the program runs, I get a very hard-to-read error message (it's
> > pink on a red background) saying that it's an invalid MAC, and
> > listing the MAC address, the colon and the first four characters of
> > the name.
>
> In 1.1.4 version the "ethernet.desc" has another format and is not
> backwards compatible. Now he format is the same as /etc/ethers file.
> You need to rewrite the ethernet.desc to the new format or make new one
> with iptraf-ng.

yes, that's right. I had changed that as I haven't seen any reasons why
it should differ.