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Re: [PATCH] Fix ether_ntoa() output format


Hi everybody

I checked in  about mac address format  and I found these articles

MAC address <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address>  
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The standard (IEEE 802) format for printing MAC-48 addresses in
human-friendly form is six groups of two hexadecimal digits, separated by
hyphens (-) or colons (:), in transmission order (e.g. 01-23-45-67-89-ab  
or   01:23:45:67:89:ab ). This form is also commonly used for EUI-64/. 

Use of the IEEE assigned Organizationally Unique Identifier with ANSI/IEEE
Std 802-2001 Local and Metropolitan Area Networks
<http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/tut/lanman.pdf>  

so the format provided by ether_ntoa is not conform with the standard and
the patch correct this problem.


Ulrich Drepper wrote
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> On 07/26/2010 09:49 AM, Nikita Izyumtsev wrote:
>> I have bumped into issue in ether_ntoa() implementation.
>> All leading zeros were suppressed.
>> e.g instead of 00:01:13:25:18:fa
>> 0:1:13:25:18:fa is printed.
> 
> And the problem is?  This is perfectly valid for all I know.  You cannot
> just claim there is a problem without backing this up.
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> â Ulrich Drepper â Red Hat, Inc. â 444 Castro St â Mountain View, CA â
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