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Re: patch: Allow various ethernet address notations
From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer () loplof de>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 16:37:30 +0100
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:13:32PM +0100, Arien Vijn wrote:
Attached is a small patch which makes libpcap filter expressions a bit more tolerant towards ethernet (MAC) address notations.
Did you use invisible ink^H^H^Hpixels in the attached patch?
\3 seems preferred by the IEEE and in many books.
The '-' notation should be used by all media that use the Ethernet bit order, TR should use ':' - at least if I interpreted the IEEE correctly. Well, it seems that hardly anyone knows that (or that I'm imagining things of course :-) ciao Joerg -- Joerg Mayer <jmayer () loplof de> We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology. - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
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- Re: patch: Allow various ethernet address notations Joerg Mayer (Jan 07)
- Re: patch: Allow various ethernet address notations Arien Vijn (Jan 07)
- Re: patch: Allow various ethernet address notations Joerg Mayer (Jan 07)