[132513] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kmedcalf@dessus.com)
Fri Nov 26 17:11:21 2010
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:11:12 -0500
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinb4i2rkR9=sFoJWsnXE57SC3BjLOtOvKG+bN24@mail.gmail.com>
From: "kmedcalf@dessus.com" <kmedcalf@dessus.com>
To: "William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>>> Cisco's expression of a MAC address is wrong anyway. Correct notation
>>> for a MAC address is separating each byte with a colon.
>> Doesn't matter... It's widespread and Cisco isn't the only one to use it=
.
>Just for my own edification, who else besides Cisco do you know who
>uses that notation for MAC addresses? I want some convincing before
>I'll accept the claim that it's widespread.
Windows displays macs as dash separated hexified bytes (ie, 12-34-56-78-90-=
AB) which is incorrect.
Given how widespread and pervasive the Microsoft Windows Virus is, I'd call=
this widespread and pervasive.
