[et-mgmt-tools] [PATCH] comparing MAC address is changed to case insensitive

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 09:22:33AM +0900, Hiroyuki Kaguchi wrote:
> MAC address is case sensitive in "countMACaddr" method.
> This patch changes from case sensitive to case insensitive.

You also have to note that 1:2:3:4:5:6 is the same as
01:02:03:04:05:06.  Comparing MAC addresses is hard :-)

There's some C code in libvirt (src/utils.c IIRC) which Jim Meyering
wrote that does a correct compare on MAC addresses.  Should be easier
in Python 'coz you can split the string and compare each component
numerically.

Rich.

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