cool! thx to all!

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Jeffrey J. Nonken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The router is going to have more than one MAC. The published one is probably 
> for the WAN interface, which is useful to know if your provider is doing MAC 
> locking.
>
>  That's my WAG.
>
>
>
>  On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:36:37 -0400, Hai Yi wrote:
>  > Thank you, Bryan:
>  >
>  > I think you are pretty much correct: it looks like this "arp"
>  > command is equivalent to another command "ip neighbor", which
>  > pretty much speaks for itself. However, I checked the MAC on my
>  > router, it appears to be   00:14:BF:D3:AE:2A, which is one digit
>  > greater in the last section than the one from arp command.
>  > (00:14:BF:D3:AE:29 ) Why is that?
>  >
>  > Thanks,
>  > Hai
>  >
>  > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Bryan Richter
>  > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  >
>  >> 2008/4/13, Hai Yi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>> Hello,
>  >>>
>  >>> I thought I can get my ether card's MAC address by using either
>  >>> "ifconfig eth0" command or "arp -v" command, but these commands
>  >>> returned different MAC address(00:16:E6:5C:DA:B8 vs
>  >>> 00:14:BF:D3:AE:29). Did I miss something here?
>  >>>
>  >>> I am using Ubuntu and the following are the results:
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ifconfig eth0
>  >>> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:E6:5C:DA:B8 inet
>  >>> addr:192.168.1.103  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>  >>> inet6 addr: fe80::216:e6ff:fe5c:dab8/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST
>  >>> RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1 RX packets:27120 errors:0
>  >>> dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:26884 errors:0
>  >>> dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>  >>> RX bytes:6831509 (6.5 MiB)  TX bytes:3820509 (3.6 MiB)
>  >>> Interrupt:16
>  >>>
>  >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ arp -v
>  >>> Address                  HWtype  HWaddress           Flags Mask
>  >>>
>  >> Iface
>  >>> .                        ether   00:14:BF:D3:AE:29   C
>  >> eth0
>  >>> Entries: 1      Skipped: 0      Found: 1
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>> Thanks a lot!
>  >>> Hai
>  >>>
>  >>
>  >> I think arp shows your adapter's neighbors, not the adapter
>  >> itself. I only just read the man page for the first time,
>  >> however, its results when I run it seem to confirm that:
>  >>
>  >> 192.168.1.1              ether   00:18:4D:25:82:0D   C
>  >> ath0
>  >>
>  >> My adapter's neighbor is, indeed, 192.168.1.1 (my router).
>  >>
>  >> ifconfig, on the other hand, seems like a much better place to
>  >> find info about the device, itself. Also, the address it gives
>  >> for my device matches the sticker that the manufacturer put on my
>  >> laptop. :)
>  >>
>  >> -Bryan
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