[set mac] change mac address formatting #380
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The old formatting using the mac address last byte to present decimal value.
e.g. eth21 will have last byte as :21 (hexidecimal).
While this scheme gives great benefit to manual debugging and log reading. It
limits the number of interface supported to 100 [00..99].
t0-116 topology has 120 enabled interfaces which exceeds the above limite.
This change has been tested on a DUT with T0-116 topology.