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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to find the MAC address
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:45:28
Message-Id: 201204201943.48456.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: How to find the MAC address by James
1 On Friday 20 Apr 2012 16:22:10 James wrote:
2 > Alex Schuster <wonko <at> wonkology.org> writes:
3 > > How am I supposed to find the MAC address of an ethernet interface?
4 >
5 > nmap -sP 192.168.2.0/24
6 >
7 > might be of interest too,
8 >
9 > ymmv,
10 > James
11
12 Hmmm ... current versions use -sn instead of -sP for no port scan.
13
14 BTW, this would only work if you scan (as root) the target from another box.
15 It will not reveal a MAC address if you scan localhost.
16 --
17 Regards,
18 Mick

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