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From: emcguire@cadfx.ccad.uiowa.edu (Ed McGuire)
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Subject: Re: How do I find out my Ethernet address?
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Date: 3 May 90 23:40:01 GMT
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From article <2561@syma.sussex.ac.uk>, by andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews):
> From article <1606@dinl.mmc.UUCP>, by noren@dinl.uucp (Charles Noren):
> : 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

That will give you the Internet address, not the Ethernet address.
What I do know is that `arp -a' will give you the Ethernet addresses of
remote nodes.  That is, you can get the Ethernet address of system `foo'
by signing in on system `bar' and typing `ping foo;arp -a'.
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peace.  -- Ed
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