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Date:      Fri, 5 Apr 2002 13:11:04 -0500
From:      Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ethernet address format changes.
Message-ID:  <20020405181104.GA2191@pir.net>
In-Reply-To: <200204051801.g35I1Xl52628@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <200204051801.g35I1Xl52628@apollo.backplane.com>

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Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> probably said:
>     Unfortunately, this has had the side effect of changing the format
>     from %02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%20x to %x:%x:%x:%x:%x:%x.  The new 
>     format is non-standard.  I will occassionally see it printed in a
>     physical label attached to a machine, but I've never seen anything
>     other then %02x displayed on a computer until now.

>     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.

P.

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