MAC Address on Linux

[Ken Ray]

On 10/9/04 4:20 PM, "Alex Tweedly" <alex at tweedly.net> wrote:

> At 15:18 09/10/2004 -0500, Ken Ray wrote:
>> (Sorry about that last one)
>> 
>> Thanks, Mark... I tried this in my copy of RedHat 9, and I don't get
>> anything with "HWaddr" in /sbin/ifconfig. When I looked at Mark Waddingham's
>> approach of doing "cat /proc/net/arp", I didn't get anything either. The
>> only thing I got with /sbin/ifconfig is the localhost address (127.0.0.1).
>> 
>> So perhaps it's not as universal as we'd think... any suggestions for
>> getting MAC address in RedHat 9?
> 
> Stupid question - but are you sure you had an ethernet interface up and
> running on the Redhat9 box when you tried this ?

Not a stupid question at all... I had a wireless interface set up and
assumed that I had already set up the ethernet interface... but apparently I
hadn't. So after I set up my ethernet interface, I saw the "HWAddr" that
Mark identified.

Thanks for the reality check, Alex!

:-)

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com