Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 10:41:41 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet address format changes. Message-ID: <nospam-1018053701.94534@bambi.gbch.net> In-Reply-To: <200204051846.g35IkTJ54788@apollo.backplane.com> of Fri, 05 Apr 2002 10:46:29 PST References: <200204051801.g35I1Xl52628@apollo.backplane.com> <20020405181104.GA2191@pir.net> <200204051846.g35IkTJ54788@apollo.backplane.com>
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Matthew Dillon wrote: | :> Comments? | : | :As a datapoint, Solaris ifconfig and sparc OBP will print ethernet | :addresses without leading 0s. | : | :Not that I think freebsd's behaviour should have changed, but it is | :done elsewhere. | | 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). Please make sure that the old format is restored in -stable and continued in -current. Any gratuitous change of data that is a target for parsing by scripts is a step in the wrong direction. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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