A user submitted a networking request today, and bothered to convert their ethernet MAC address from hexidecimal into decimal.
NOTHING USES IT IN DECIMAL. NOTHING. It's like asking someone's age in hexidecimal -- you just don't. (BTW, I'm only 0x1A years old.)
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he may have needed it to put his modem into factory mode, or maybe something complelety different,,,. but there is always a reason.
There's actually a very good reason. In SNMP output mac addresses for an association or ARP table are represented in decimal format as part of the OID. No way to parse the output without understanding the decimal output.
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