Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!grr
From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Getting ETHERNET address of VAX adapter
Message-ID: <10847@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 13 Apr 90 03:00:08 GMT
References: <3431.26246304@fps.mcw.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <3431.26246304@fps.mcw.edu> brodie@fps.mcw.edu writes:
> This is ALMOST a really stupid question....
> How does one go about finding out the ethernet address of the
> ethernet adapter of a VAX?  (via software, that is...)
> 
> With NCP, etc., I can easily see the addresses of the SERVERS,
> but stuff like SHOW EXEC CHAR doesn't tell me what I need to know.

ncp show line xyz-n characteristics

Note that this shows you the original hardware address, not whatever
deviated thing DECnet sets it to (something based on the DECnet area.node).

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