If you have the needed NIC drivers installed (either compiled into the
kernel or added as modules), running "ifconfig -a" will, on every full-size
Linux distribution I'm familiar with, return several lines of information
about the NIC, including its MAC address (that's the other common name for
what you call "hardware numbers"), labeled "HWaddr" and using colons where
you have periods.
Some specialized Linux distributions lack this command (ifconfig), using
instead "iproute" ... but I'm not sufficiently familiar with this variant to
tell you how to use it.
The MAC address is not quite a "serial number" -- it can be changed in
software (at least for some NICs) -- read the man page for ifconfig for the
details.
At 09:06 AM 6/12/00 -0400, Peter Howell Jr wrote:
> My network admin has asked my to got the hardware numbers for all the
computer is my lab. He showed me how it's done
>on windoze: you execute the command winipcfg. The number you get looks
something like
>
>00.00.53.BA.A3.7D
>
>ie. a set of six, two digit hexadecimal numbers. Does anyone know
where/how I get this number off my two linux boxes?
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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