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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:14:12
Message-Id: CA+czFiBDRXnLywFow-Jxg9kgPJR3B2g4xeYxX694yFY-5d+s=w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address by Alex Schuster
1 On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > Michael Mol writes:
3 >
4 >> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
5 >> wrote:
6 >
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 --
30 :wq

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address Joost Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org>