Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:57:59 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: pir@pir.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet address format changes. Message-ID: <200204051957.g35JvxZ56906@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200204051846.g35IkTJ54788@apollo.backplane.com> <21537.1018036280@verdi.nethelp.no>
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:> This brings up the question as to whether we should 'fix' this in
:> -current and -stable, or just fix it in -stable and leave current
:> alone (i.e. make the new format, without leading zero's, the standard
:> for -current).
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:Please don't "fix" it. A regular format (with the leading zeros) is much
:easier to handle.
:
:Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
Huh? I think there is some confusion.
Currently ether_ntoa() generates something like: 0:23:a4:3:3:3
ifconfig was changed to use ether_ntoa(), thus changing the output
format. I am proposing that we 'fix' ether_ntoa() to
generate: 00:23:a4:03:03:03
Not the other way around.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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