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List:       user-mode-linux-devel
Subject:    Re: [uml-devel] regression: pcap broken in 2.6.20.x
From:       Jeff Dike <jdike () addtoit ! com>
Date:       2007-04-30 21:32:09
Message-ID: 20070430213209.GB9773 () c2 ! user-mode-linux ! org
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:30:59PM +0100, Antoine Martin wrote:
> > Suppose someone uses 2:1:2:3:4:5 (11 chars), which I did for testing?
> I thought that was an invalid mac address?(I've never seen mac addresses
> specified that way on any software or hardware - yet)

A valid MAC is 6 binary bytes - I haven't seen anywhere that "02" is
the only valid ASCII representation of one of those bytes.

> Yeah, I preferred that too, it is also more consistent with the way the
> other transports do it, but it needed to be backwards compatible. Which
> can still be done, but only as long as:
> pcap-options!='[no]promisc!'='[no]optimize!'=mac-address='pcap'
> Isn't it the case already?

The original pcap specification would remain, and that would be your
backward compatibility.

> Acked-by: Antoine Martin <antoine@nagafix.co.uk>
> works for me (tm)

Cool, I'll send it in.

				Jeff

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