On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Thomas M. Albright wrote:
> how does one findout the MAC address of an ethernet card?
If the card is installed in a Linux system, and the right driver is loaded,
then this command:
ifconfig <interface>
will tell you (look for the "HWaddr" field). Some drivers also print the MAC
address as they initialize their cards, do dmesg(8) or your system logs may
tell you as well. If you want to find out the MAC of other hosts on your
IP network, then use give these two commands:
ping <host>
arp
should give you the information you need. Note that arp may appear to "hang"
at first if name resolution is slow or borken; just give it time, or pass the
"-n" switch ("arp -n") to tell it not to resolve IP addresses to names.
Also: Many cards have the MAC address printed on them somewhere. :-)
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