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Date:      Fri, 05 Apr 2002 19:56:58 +0100
From:      AMAKAWA Shuhei <sa264@cam.ac.uk>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Ethernet address format changes.
Message-ID:  <E16tYtY-0003o7-00@green.csi.cam.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200204051846.g35IkTJ54788@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <200204051801.g35I1Xl52628@apollo.backplane.com> <20020405181104.GA2191@pir.net> <200204051846.g35IkTJ54788@apollo.backplane.com>

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At Fri, 5 Apr 2002 10:46:29 -0800 (PST),
Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
> 
> :
> :>     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

A related thing.
the format arp(8) uses was changed to %02x.

--
Shuhei

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