MAC addresses

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MAC addresses

Closed this issue 5 years ago · 2 comments

The OS commands the allcomponents script uses on Linux retrieves the MAC address of a NIC with each octet separated by dashes. On Windows, the separators are colons. Comparison of these values shouldn't depend on separators. Paccor can ensure a standard representation for the MAC address.

iadgovuser29 commented 5 years ago

See #75.

Answer 1 · 2019-09-27T16:20:33.000Z

MAC address standard representation:
"ABCDEF123456" (1) or
"AB-CD-EF-12-34-56" (1)

Colons are referenced on Wikipedia by a Cisco document. On Linux, they are also lowercase. Those should be converted to a standard representation.

(1) https://standards.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-standards/standards/web/documents/tutorials/eui.pdf, Page 9