From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 7 18:38:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AFAFC37B43E for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 18:38:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 23173 invoked by uid 1001); 5 Apr 2002 20:06:24 +0000 (GMT) To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com Cc: pir@pir.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet address format changes. From: sthaug@nethelp.no In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:57:59 -0800 (PST)" References: <200204051957.g35JvxZ56906@apollo.backplane.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 22:06:24 +0200 Message-ID: <23171.1018037184@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 My misunderstanding, thanks for clearing the confusion. Your suggested format (which is the same I see on my 4.4 and 4.5 boxes) is what I want. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message