[132514] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Nov 26 17:44:35 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <0fc6a57e91dd534a892e55206482578e@mail.dessus.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:41:24 -0800
To: "kmedcalf@dessus.com" <kmedcalf@dessus.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Nov 26, 2010, at 2:11 PM, kmedcalf@dessus.com wrote:
>>>> Cisco's expression of a MAC address is wrong anyway. Correct =
notation
>>>> for a MAC address is separating each byte with a colon.
>=20
>>> Doesn't matter... It's widespread and Cisco isn't the only one to =
use it.
>=20
>> 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.
>=20
> Windows displays macs as dash separated hexified bytes (ie, =
12-34-56-78-90-AB) which is incorrect.
>=20
> Given how widespread and pervasive the Microsoft Windows Virus is, I'd =
call this widespread and pervasive.
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
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Windows is not a virus. Viruses are tight, well written pieces of code =
with a specific (usually nefarious)
purpose.
While windows certainly qualifies as nefarious, I doubt anyone would =
consider it tight or well written
code.
Owen
