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From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
Subject: Re: bin/25584: arp.c - better printed ether address
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The following reply was made to PR bin/25584; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To: <davidx@viasoft.com.cn>
Cc: <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: bin/25584: arp.c - better printed ether address
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 15:48:35 -0600 (CST)

 On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 davidx@viasoft.com.cn wrote:
 
 >
 > >Number:         25584
 > >Category:       bin
 > >Synopsis:       arp.c - better printed ether address
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       low
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 > >State:          open
 > >Quarter:
 > >Keywords:
 > >Date-Required:
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Wed Mar 07 00:30:03 PST 2001
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     David Xu
 > >Release:        FreeBSD 4.3-BETA
 > >Organization:
 > Viasoft
 > >Environment:
 > FreeBSD davidbsd.viasoft.com.cn 4.3-BETA FreeBSD 4.3-BETA #0: Wed Mar  7 15:30:1
 > 1 CST 2001     xyf@davidbsd.viasoft.com.cn:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/xu  i386
 > >Description:
 > the ether address printed by /usr/sbin/arp is not so fine,
 > some bytes is printed in two bytes while others not.
 >
 >
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > stock version prints:
 > davidbsd# arp -n -a
 > ? (192.168.1.98) at 0:e0:4c:6b:a6:9 [ethernet]
 > ? (192.168.1.109) at 0:e0:4c:3f:49:eb [ethernet]
 > ? (192.168.1.254) at 0:b0:c2:89:a4:6e [ethernet]
 > ? (192.168.1.255) at ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff permanent [ethernet]
 >
 > better vesion prints
 > davidbsd# arp -n -a
 > ? (192.168.1.98) at 00:e0:4c:6b:a6:09 [ethernet]
 > ? (192.168.1.109) at 00:e0:4c:3f:49:eb [ethernet]
 > ? (192.168.1.254) at 00:b0:c2:89:a4:6e [ethernet]
 > ? (192.168.1.255) at ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff permanent [ethernet]
 
 This will probably turn into a bikeshed argument, but....
 
 I would have to heartily agree with you that this is the correct way
 to do things.  While it _might_ break something that parses arp(8)
 output, always using two digits is how I have seen it done everywhere
 else.  You should be able to remove all of the colons and always have
 a correct MAC address (12 digits), which is not the case currently.
 
 
 -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net
    FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet.
    For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development.
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