From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 5 10:11:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [130.64.1.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB1A37B417 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 10:11:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 16tYAy-0000kf-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 13:11:04 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 13:11:04 -0500 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ethernet address format changes. Message-ID: <20020405181104.GA2191@pir.net> Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <200204051801.g35I1Xl52628@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200204051801.g35I1Xl52628@apollo.backplane.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. 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 Matthew Dillon 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. -- pir pir-sig@pir.net pir-sig@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message