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From: randy@csseq.tamu.edu (Randy Hutson)
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Subject: Re: How do I find out my Ethernet address?
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Date: 3 May 90 23:07:38 GMT
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|: On a Sun 3 (SunOS 4.0.3), how do I find out what my
|: Ethernet address is?  One answer is rebooting, but how
|: do you find out without rebooting?  
|: Is there a command executable from sh(1)?
|
|You could try           grep `hostname` /etc/hosts
|
|(assuming you have such a file, or similar)

No, that will give the Internet address.

	grep `hostname` /etc/ethers

should give the Ethernet address.  Or if yellowpages is running,

	ypcat ethers | grep `hostname`