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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] decimals not accepted in substrings -can youconfirm a bug?

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:15:06 +0200
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 06:52:56PM +1000, Visser, Martin wrote:
> which is there is possibly a special case of a byte string. Certainly
> colons, ":", in ethernet addresses can be exchanged with period, ".",
> and dash, "-")

IIRC the official ieee way is to use "-". I don't remember exaclty but
the widely used ":" is wrong by ieee standards.

Disclaimer - I read this quite a while ago while searching for something
completely different and may be mixing things up.

 ciao
      Joerg
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