From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Antoine Martin <antoine@nagafix.co.uk>
Cc: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>,
user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] regression: pcap broken in 2.6.20.x
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:32:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070430213209.GB9773@c2.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <463643F3.4050809@nagafix.co.uk>
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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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-22 18:43 [uml-devel] regression: pcap broken in 2.6.20.x Antoine Martin
2007-04-25 20:48 ` Jeff Dike
2007-04-25 20:59 ` Antoine Martin
2007-04-26 14:12 ` Blaisorblade
2007-04-27 15:10 ` Jeff Dike
2007-04-27 15:21 ` Antoine Martin
2007-04-27 15:28 ` Antoine Martin
2007-04-27 15:50 ` Jeff Dike
2007-04-27 16:29 ` Antoine Martin
2007-04-27 16:46 ` Antoine Martin
2007-04-27 16:55 ` Antoine Martin
2007-04-27 20:20 ` Jeff Dike
2007-04-30 17:18 ` Antoine Martin
2007-04-30 18:10 ` Jeff Dike
2007-04-30 19:30 ` Antoine Martin
2007-04-30 21:32 ` Jeff Dike [this message]
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