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Date:      Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:22:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, 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:  <200006191722.NAA30905@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200006171920.MAA01047@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
References:  <200006171857.OAA04805@whizzo.transsys.com> <200006171920.MAA01047@mass.osd.bsdi.com>

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<<On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 12:20:42 -0700, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org> said:

> That's correct.  And that's why if you're setting an ethernet address, 
> you should use 'ether', and if you're setting a FDDI MAC address you 
> should use 'fddi', 

Ummm... no.  If you are setting up an IEEE 802.1 MAC address (aka
EUI48) you should use something appropriate for one of those three
acronyms.

The Correct Thing is to use sockaddr_dl and call it `macaddr'.

-GAWollman

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