On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:04:31AM -0800, James C. Li wrote: > Hi, > > My NIC (Linksys LNE100 TX) has worked fine within a Cable modem LAN (with a > Linksys router), but since I've moved in to my college dorm, I can't find the > MAC address. With ifconfig, I get something like (I can't reproduce it; typing > this from a public computer): > > % ifconfig > . . . > ether: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > . . . > > Apparently, the school requires students to register their ethernet (MAC) > addresses before their DHCP server leases an IP address. Is there any way for > me to get the ethernet address through FreeBSD? > > BTW: the machine is FreeBSD-4.7 RELEASE > > Also, could the MAC address by on the card somewhere (if anybody has a similar > card)? All I see is some string of numbers like a scan code. > > Thanks, > > James
Your ethernet MAC address should be accessible from `ifconfig` on the line below your particular driver labeled "ether". You may also try to find it using the command `arp -a` which should have an entry for your local adapter. Nathan -- GPG Public Key ID: 0x4250A04C gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4250A04C http://63.105.21.156/gpg_nkinkade_4250A04C.asc
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