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Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 22:04:37 -0600
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] silly dhcpd question
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On Sat, 14 May 2005, Axel Belinfante wrote:
> Maybe some confusion could be avoided if anything that reports
> ethernet addresses to the user would use this same canonical format?

Or maybe just this at the top of the distributed /lib/ndb/local:

# Make the ethernet addresses all lower case or you'll regret it.

Then you don't have to do all that work :-)

ron