{"issue":{"created_at":"2011-12-14T15:37:19Z","state":"open","updated_at":"2011-12-14T15:46:34Z","user":{"gravatar_id":"1eaa6438786c2b3cc28678d84f8e38ce","id":81184,"url":"https://api.github.com/users/interactive-matter","login":"interactive-matter","avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1eaa6438786c2b3cc28678d84f8e38ce?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png"},"comments":1,"body":"While browsing through the source and the demo source I have encountere three different formats for MAC addresses in the source code:\r\n6 characters\r\n6 int\r\n2 int\r\n\r\nIs it useful? It always puzzles me which format to use and how to reformat the mac address.\r\nOr am I missing something completely.\r\n\r\n","assignee":null,"id":2552882,"number":20,"pull_request":{"patch_url":null,"html_url":null,"diff_url":null},"labels":[],"title":"Is there a reason for so many MAC formats?","html_url":"https://github.com/xcore/sc_ethernet/issues/20","closed_at":null,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/xcore/sc_ethernet/issues/20","milestone":null},"action":"created","comment":{"created_at":"2011-12-14T15:46:34Z","updated_at":"2011-12-14T15:46:34Z","user":{"gravatar_id":"3fa595cfcf88b54408166f314e62e548","id":606831,"url":"https://api.github.com/users/DavidNorman","login":"DavidNorman","avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3fa595cfcf88b54408166f314e62e548?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png"},"body":"The 2 int version is the internal storage which is done so that we can be sure of the alignment of the address.  The 6 char is the external representation which sort of is how you would think of a mac address as a general user, i think.\r\n\r\ni'm not sure what the 6 int is about - maybe an error\r\n","id":3141281,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/xcore/sc_ethernet/issues/comments/3141281"}}