From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 5 10:46:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2376D37B420 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 10:46:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g35IkTJ54788; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 10:46:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 10:46:29 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200204051846.g35IkTJ54788@apollo.backplane.com> To: Peter Radcliffe Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet address format changes. References: <200204051801.g35I1Xl52628@apollo.backplane.com> <20020405181104.GA2191@pir.net> 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 : :> 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 This brings up the question as to whether we should 'fix' this in -current and -stable, or just fix it in -stable and leave current alone (i.e. make the new format, without leading zero's, the standard for -current). -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message