MAC Address on Linux

[Mark Waddingham]

Hi Mark,

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Mark Talluto wrote:

> Anyone know how to get the MAC Address on Linux?  Ken has a tip for 
> this on his site, but it does not include Linux.  I am afraid I know 
> next to nothing about Linux.  A pointer on how I could get this would 
> save me much time.  Thanks!
> 
> 

All you need to do is parse the result of shell("/sbin/ifconfig"'). I 
think ifconfig sits in the same place on most Linux distributions...

Best wishes,

Mark.

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