Re: Program to find the ethernet MAC address

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From: Paul Haddon
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 00:00

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John Saunders (johns@rd.scitec.com.au) wrote:
: Does anybody have a program that can be used to extract the ethernet
: hardware (MAC) address from the ethernet device?

If you have root access on your box (and I'm assuming you do) just run
ifconfig and look at the HWaddr setting.

Also, if your ethernet is working correctly, you can always do an 
arp -a from another machine.

Cheers,

Paul Haddon
Technical Services Manager
Hartingdale

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