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Michael Orlitzky writes: |
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> On 04/19/12 15:40, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> > Hi there! |
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> > How am I supposed to find the MAC address of an ethernet interface? I |
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> > used to call ifconfig and grep for HWaddr, but this does not work any |
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> > 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 |
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> > like to know what the new method is that scripts should use. |
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> `ip link` |
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> Learning a new command for something so fundamental was annoying, but |
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> now I'm much happier. |
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Thanks, that's a nice one. But can I expect this command to be available |
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per default on typical Linux distributions? Some other systems I have |
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access to have it, but here on Gentoo it belongs to sys-apps/iproute2, |
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which depends on nothing I have installed, I do not even know why I |
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emerged it in the first place. So maybe I better use ifconfig which is |
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always available, although sometimes in /bin and sometimes in /sbin, and |
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I have to check the output to see which version it is. |
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Wonko |
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