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- From: root@sanger.chem.nd.edu (Doctor Math)
- Subject: Re: FAQ How to obtain my ethernet address?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.025023.27636@news.nd.edu>
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- Organization: University of Notre Dame
- References: <34037@adm.brl.mil> <1du9g1INNj2o@fnnews.fnal.gov> <s9gp934@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 02:50:23 GMT
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- In article <s9gp934@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com> vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:
- >Instead, use `netstat -ina`. It is supposed to return the MAC address
- >and does. With netsetat, you don't have to make fiddles about the
- >relation, if any, between the system ID and any of the network MAC
- >addresses.
-
- It also claims that my machine has the addresses 224.0.2.2 and 224.0.0.1,
- listed between the primary IP address and the ethernet address.
- What are these? I'm not using SLIP. (I feel like it's a trick and I
- really should know what these are already.)
-