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In article <1ebpp5INNr5d@menudo.uh.edu> sears@tree.egr.uh.edu writes:
>In article <1ebef5INNosc@gap.caltech.edu> madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)  
>writes:
>=>
>=>>> Try grepping through /usr/adm/messages for "Ethernet address".
>=>
>=>This might not work.  messages appears to have a size limit, and stuff
>=>drops off of the beginning.  messages.old is the same, so it can drop
>=>off of there too.  Just for fun, I grepped for "Ethernet address" on
>=>every file in /usr/adm on a long-ago booted NeXT, and it wasn't there.
>=>
>
>Not entirely.  The stuff in /usr/adm is trimmed daily, weekly and monthly by  
>the various scripts that are run via cron.  This helps keep the logs from  
>growing indefinately.  For example, messages and syslog are trimmed daily as  
>they can grow to a rather large size within a day on a busy server.  The  
>messages.old is the previous day's log.
>
>=>Mark Adler
>=>madler@cco.caltech.edu

I guess there are pro's and cons to most of these methods.  Different
strokes.......

Anyway, here's another possibility.  In NetManager, there is a field for
storing the ethernet address.  Once it has been entered there, it will show
up in the NetInfo tables. Of course, this all depends on getting the
address in the first place, but having it in NetInfo isn't a bad idea for
general network management.
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