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Subject: Re: [9fans] silly dhcpd question
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From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
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Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 20:59:52 +0200
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> > I'm much happier requiring that the ndb entries be stored
> > in canonical form than doing magical rewriting under the hood.
> 
> this was my decision too, after a bit of squiz at the problem
> and not wanting to break canonical interfaces or anything
> else for that matter.

Maybe some confusion could be avoided if anything that reports
ethernet addresses to the user would use this same canonical format?

Right now when I boot 9load reports the ether addres in lower case
(via %E where it installed eipfmt from ip(2)
 which uses %.2lux%.2lux%.2lux%.2lux%.2lux%.2lux)

  ether#0: elnk3: port 0xDC00 irq 11: 00c0df15fb45

and a little later the kernel reports it in upper case
(directly via %2.2uX%2.2uX%2.2uX%2.2uX%2.2uX%2.2uX)

  #l0: elnk3: 100Mbps port 0xDC00 irq 11: 00C04F15FB45


just my 0.02 whatever.
Axel.