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Ethers not working when using zigbee protocol

Hi all, I'm sniffing my home zigbee network with wireshark and I'd like to assign friendly readable labels for the devices on the network. For instance : "Coordinator" instead of "0x0000" I've edited "ethers" file like this: 0x0000 Coordinator But nothing happens in wireshark Any ideas how to solve this?

Thx in advance.

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nasrudin78
asked 2021-07-19 06:11:01 +0000
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Hi, It didn't work when I tried Windows versions 3.4.7, 3.2.15, and 2.90. I discovered that it works in the developer version. There were no open cases when I checked the Wireshark bug website.

BigFatCat's avatar BigFatCat (2021-07-19 11:13:55 +0000) edit

which developer version are you using? I've installed 3.5.0rc0-2522-gf54493278f27 (v3.5.0rc0-2522-gf54493278f27) but still doesn't work for me? This is my ethers file content (only one device for the moment :) ):

0x00000000 Coordinator
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I tried the version 3.5.0rc0-2522-gf54493278f27 (v3.5.0rc0-2522-gf54493278f27) and it worked. Let me explain what I did and a caveat I bumped into. - I created the file ethers (not file extension) in the profile folder - The format is 00:00:00:00:00:00 Coordinator or 00-00-00-00-00-00 Coordinator. It does not like 0x0000000000 - There is a caveat. The updated ethers file may not be read by Wireshark. The solution I came up with was to make a copy of the updated ethers file and replace the original ethers with it.

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answered 2021-07-19 17:16:17 +0000
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Thx. I can't make it work :'''(
I have my ethers file in %appdata%/wireshark and also in %appdata%/wireshark/profiles. But none of them are working. The content is : 00-00-00-00-00-00 Coordinator
when I run ZBOSS to launch Wireshark, the source device isn't updated. Is it necessary another action to be set in Wireshark? One more doubt, I don't understand your last sentence about the caveat and updated ethers, can you explain it a little more... Thank you very much for your help/support!

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