MAC Address on Linux

[Mark Talluto]

On Oct 9, 2004, at 3:27 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

>>> 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!
>
> :-)

Just got here and read the messages.  Got scared there for a sec.  Do 
we need the "-a" part that Pierre suggested?

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Best regards,
Mark Talluto
http://www.canelasoftware.com