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Date:      Sat, 17 Jun 2000 11:34:32 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys sockio.h src/sys/net if.c src/sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.8 ifconfig.c 
Message-ID:  <200006171834.LAA00859@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Jun 2000 05:14:07 PDT." <20000617051407.A72404@dragon.nuxi.com> 

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> On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 04:23:14PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> > consider that we use ether as a display for the MAC:
> > fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> >         ether 00:a0:c9:3c:5b:93
> > 
> > we should either add an alias for ether, or convert ether over to lladdr..
> 
> Agreed.  "ether" is probably the most understood.

Especially since this is the "ether" address we are setting.  All of the 
other address tokens are address-family specific, rather than 
layer-specific.

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\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
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