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From: Joost Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:45:35
Message-Id: 1964012.4h1Mvnf0et@eve
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address by Michael Mol
1 On Thursday, April 19, 2012 04:12:35 PM Michael Mol wrote:
2 > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote:
3 > > Michael Mol writes:
4 > >> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
5 > >>
6 > >> wrote:
7 > >> > New output:
8 > >> > eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
9 > >> > inet 192.168.2.42 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
10 > >> > 192.168.2.255 inet6 fe80::be5f:f4ff:fe19:ad18 prefixlen 64 scopeid
11 > >> > 0x20<link>
12 > >> >
13 > >> > ether bc:5f:f4:19:ad:18 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
14 > >>
15 > >> There it is.
16 > >
17 > > Wow. Now I feel really stupid. Because I am. I have no idea why I have
18 > > overlooked this.
19 > >
20 > > Sorry for the noise!
21 >
22 > I didn't see it right away, either. I found it by noticing your MAC in
23 > your old output, and searched for a substring of it in your new
24 > output.
25 >
26 > Incidentally, you can derive it from your IPv6 LL address, but that's
27 > a bit of a roundabout way, and may not work if you've disabled IPv6.
28
29 How do you derive it?
30 I don't see the mac-address in the inet6 address.
31
32 --
33 Joost

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[gentoo-user] Re: How to find the MAC address Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>