On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Julian Edwards
<[email protected]> wrote:
> To clarify, why would someone "very likely would want to query by the
> mac address".  What's the use case?

If they are staring at a rack full of hardware, one of which has a
fault light lit, the only data they have at hand is the MAC address of
the ethernet card, which is (for servers) often printed on the card,
for exactly this reason.

-Rob

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