On 04/19/12 15:40, Alex Schuster wrote: > Hi there! > > How am I supposed to find the MAC address of an ethernet interface? I used > to call ifconfig and grep for HWaddr, but this does not work any more. > > I found the 'old-output' USE flag for sys-apps/net-tools, which brings > back the old behaviour in order not to break old scripts, but I'd like to > know what the new method is that scripts should use.
`ip link` Learning a new command for something so fundamental was annoying, but now I'm much happier.
