From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 5 10:57:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from green.csi.cam.ac.uk (green.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94C2F37B417 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 10:57:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=localhost ident=root) by green.csi.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16tYtY-0003o7-00; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 19:57:08 +0100 Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 19:56:58 +0100 From: AMAKAWA Shuhei To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Peter Radcliffe , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet address format changes. In-Reply-To: <200204051846.g35IkTJ54788@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200204051801.g35I1Xl52628@apollo.backplane.com> <20020405181104.GA2191@pir.net> <200204051846.g35IkTJ54788@apollo.backplane.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message