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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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Here's how the output looked before and now: |
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Old output: |
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eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr bc:5f:f4:19:ad:18 |
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inet addr:192.168.2.42 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 |
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inet6 addr: fe80::be5f:f4ff:fe19:ad18/64 Scope:Link |
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UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 |
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RX packets:11027476 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 |
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TX packets:8002728 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1 |
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collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 |
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RX bytes:11763889583 (10.9 GiB) TX bytes:1006570663 (959.9 MiB) |
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Interrupt:49 |
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New output: |
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eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 |
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inet 192.168.2.42 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.2.255 |
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inet6 fe80::be5f:f4ff:fe19:ad18 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link> |
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ether bc:5f:f4:19:ad:18 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) |
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RX packets 10791981 bytes 11413935608 (10.6 GiB) |
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RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 |
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TX packets 7867427 bytes 996505563 (950.3 MiB) |
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TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 1 collisions 0 |
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device interrupt 49 |
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