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- From: James Petts <pettsj@visigoth.demon.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: help on ethernet address
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 07:07:28 GMT
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- In article <g251H=dy0c@atlantis.psu.edu> Zhe, ZHE@ECLX.PSU.EDU writes:
- >1) Where should I find out the ether net address, i checked /etc/ethers
- and
- >/usr/etc/ethers, /usr/etc/hosts, nothing is there except IP address and
- >hostname.
- >
- >2) Is there any utility in the unix that give me ethernet address ?
-
-
- Type "netstat -ain". You will see something like:
-
- horus 1# netstat -ain
- Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
- et0 1500 193.35.16 193.35.16.1 35528 0 35008 0 4784
- 224.0.2.2
- 224.0.0.1
- 08:00:69:02:0c:70
- lo0 32880 127 127.0.0.1 21490 0 21490 0 0
- 224.0.0.1
- horus 2#
-
- The ethernet address is the six pairs of hex digits separated by colons
- on line 5 of the example shown above.
-
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