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zecora
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 Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 10:58 pm Post subject: How to tell what your MAC address is. |
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How to find out mac address?
I know i can just look on the card, but is there a command i can do that tells me it? |
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Little Nemo
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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| ifconfig |
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zecora
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| where does it say the mac address? |
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j-m
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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| zecora wrote: | | where does it say the mac address? |
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# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:61:11:22:33
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Duh!  |
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zecora
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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i thought it was longer than that.
my bad |
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Cocker68
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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How to find out mac address, sitting on a different machine?
| Code: | # ping -c 1 <IP-address>
# arp -a <IP-address> |
with <IP-address> being the one of the machine to query.
- Cocker :wq |
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Little Nemo
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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| That only works for machines on the same ethernet segment, of course. |
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