Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 11:02:16 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> 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: <20020405190216.2C15F5D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Apr 2002 10:46:29 PST." <200204051846.g35IkTJ54788@apollo.backplane.com>
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> Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 10:46:29 -0800 (PST) > From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@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). If we are going to "fix" it, we should make it compliant with the ISO specification for MAC addresses (ISO 8802). This is all uppercase with leading zeros and hyphens between octets. (e.g. 00:06:5b:80:b1:fc would become 00-06-5B-80-B1-FC). I don't really expect anyone to take this seriously, but it's always bugged me that the folks who did the initial implementation chose to disregard the spec. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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