Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address

[Michael Mol]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> How am I supposed to find the MAC address of an ethernet interface? I used
> to call ifconfig and grep for HWaddr, but this does not work any more.
>
> I found the 'old-output' USE flag for sys-apps/net-tools, which brings
> back the old behaviour in order not to break old scripts, but I'd like to
> know what the new method is that scripts should use.
>
> Here's how the output looked before and now:
>
> Old output:
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr bc:5f:f4:19:ad:18
>          inet addr:192.168.2.42  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>          inet6 addr: fe80::be5f:f4ff:fe19:ad18/64 Scope:Link
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:11027476 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:8002728 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>          RX bytes:11763889583 (10.9 GiB)  TX bytes:1006570663 (959.9 MiB)
>          Interrupt:49
>
> New output:
> eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
>        inet 192.168.2.42  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.2.255
>        inet6 fe80::be5f:f4ff:fe19:ad18  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>

>        ether bc:5f:f4:19:ad:18  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)

There it is.

>        RX packets 10791981  bytes 11413935608 (10.6 GiB)
>        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
>        TX packets 7867427  bytes 996505563 (950.3 MiB)
>        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 1  collisions 0
>        device interrupt 49
>
>        Wonko
>



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