Re: Ethernet id

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From: Volker Herminghaus-Shirai
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 14:46

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In article <HERRING.92Nov13093648@loke.iesd.auc.dk> herring@iesd.auc.dk (B.
Erickson Herring) writes:
> >>>>> On Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:37:47 GMT, tagreen@lothario.cica.indiana.edu
>       (Todd A Green) said:
>
> [ Someone asked how to get the ethernet address of a given NeXT        ]
> [ machine.]

[Lots of stuff, including a cryptic sed script that relies on
undocumented features, deleted]

On my machine (default setup) I can just:
	grep Ethernet /usr/adm/messages
and get:
	Nov  9 18:06:49 qb mach: en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:00:92:7c

This is IMHO the easiest way.

--
Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@rhein-main.de)

Computer industry: Industry in which the number of units sold of any
given product is inversely proportional to its technical excellence.
See also: MS-DOS, Windows, IBM-PC, X, QWERTY,
          80x86, TrueType, Survival of the shittest.

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