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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:50:22
Message-Id: 20120423014746.GB2130@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address by Alex Schuster
1 On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:11:08PM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote
2 > Peter Humphrey writes:
3 >
4 > > On Thursday 19 April 2012 20:56:59 Michael Mol wrote:
5 > >
6 > > > The 'ip' command is far and away a nicer tool than ifconfig, once you
7 > > > get a handle on it.
8 > >
9 > > Which package is it in?
10 >
11 > sys-apps/iproute2
12
13 It's also a built-in for busybox, which is part of the system package.
14 On my machine...
15
16 waltdnes@d531 ~ $ busybox ip link
17 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
18 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
19 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1454 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
20 link/ether 00:1d:09:96:6c:1c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
21
22 waltdnes@d531 ~ $ busybox ip addr show dev eth0
23 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1454 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
24 link/ether 00:1d:09:96:6c:1c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
25 inet 192.168.123.251/29 brd 192.168.123.255 scope global eth0
26 inet 169.254.1.4/16 brd 169.254.255.255 scope global eth0:1
27
28 --
29 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>