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.Dd February 7, 2012
.Dt KETHER_NTOA 9
.Os
.Fn kether_ntoa
function converts the ethernet address specified in
.Fa addr
-to the corresponding hexadecimal ASCII
-representation of it.
+to its corresponding hexadecimal ASCII representation.
Likewise, the
.Fn kether_aton
function converts an ASCII
.Fa macstr
to an ethernet address.
.Pp
+.Fn kether_ntoa
+serves a similar purpose as the former, non-standard
+.Cm D
+conversion of
+.Xr kprintf 9
+(as in,
+.Dq %6D )
+which some
+.Bx Ns s
+still have.
+.Pp
Notational conventions for hexadecimal ASCII
representation of a MAC
address are specified in IEEE 802.
or NULL in the case of failure.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ascii 7 ,
-.Xr hexncpy 9 ,
-.Xr hexdump 9
+.Xr hexdump 9 ,
+.Xr hexncpy 9
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn kether_ntoa
and
.Fn kether_aton
functions first appeared in
-.Dx 3.3
+.Dx 3.3 .