Re: patch: Allow various ethernet address notations

[Joerg Mayer <jmayer () loplof de>]

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
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer () loplof de>
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