Re: Re[2]: [COSMETIC] ether address zero truncate
Oscar Fudd <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.network.bridge.ebtables.devel |
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On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 12:07, Bart De Schuymer wrote: > > > It has reason to leave it "as is" for compatibility. > > > That's because I has intention to use /etc/ethers database by ebtables > > > for name usage instead of full MAC-address. > > > > Compatibility with....? > > With the older versions of ebtables. The change was made on June 5 2002 and > ebtables had no stable release yet. > tcpdump uses the same output as ebtables btw. > The solution will be to add an option, like --Lmac2 (any suggestions), that > will output _all_ MAC addresses in the fixed length way. That'd be good, thanks! -- Oscar Fudd <[email protected]> ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf