Re: Program to find the ethernet MAC address

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From: Andrew Hood
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 00:00

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In article <5gdv7d$8eh@degas.syd.dit.csiro.au>, ken@syd.dit.csiro.au (Ken
Yap) wrote:

>In article <5galqg$5iu@mailhub.scitec.com.au>:
>|Does anybody have a program that can be used to extract the ethernet
>|hardware (MAC) address from the ethernet device?
>
>You mean plug in any card and read the address? Unfortunately the
>address is stored in different ways depending on the design of the
>card. Of course, once the card is recognised, it's trivial to get the
>address. I think there's an ioctl to return i/f info. The source of
>ifconfig would be a good place to start looking.

Some cards have it on a sticker, or at least the last few octets. The
first few octets are fixed by manufacturer.
You could always do an "ifconfig" after you boot. It shows the mac address.

-- 
DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
handler, and always will be.                -Russell Williams

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Date: 1997/03/19
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