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-rw-r--r--src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/macaddress.py8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/macaddress.py b/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/macaddress.py
index 02c90dbce06..c3b10a3c11e 100644
--- a/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/macaddress.py
+++ b/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/macaddress.py
@@ -54,8 +54,14 @@ class MACAddress():
return '%s(%s)' % (self.__class__.__name__, self.mac_string)
def __eq__(self, other):
+
if not isinstance(other, MACAddress):
- return NotImplemented
+ try:
+ # if it looks like a mac address, we'll take it.
+ # (allows for equality with scapy hw-addresses)
+ return self.mac_binary == MACAddress(other).mac_binary
+ except Exception:
+ return NotImplemented
return self.mac_binary == other.mac_binary
def __ne__(self, other):