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On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 04/19/12 15:40, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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>> Hi there! |
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>> How am I supposed to find the MAC address of an ethernet interface? I used |
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>> to call ifconfig and grep for HWaddr, but this does not work any more. |
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>> I found the 'old-output' USE flag for sys-apps/net-tools, which brings |
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>> back the old behaviour in order not to break old scripts, but I'd like to |
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>> know what the new method is that scripts should use. |
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> `ip link` |
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> Learning a new command for something so fundamental was annoying, but |
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> now I'm much happier. |
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I'll second this. The 'ip' command is far and away a nicer tool than |
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ifconfig, once you get a handle on it. |
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