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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do I find out my Ethernet address?
Message-ID: <7973@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 4 May 90 01:17:42 GMT
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Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <5197@helios.TAMU.EDU> randy@csseq.tamu.edu (Randy Hutson) writes:
: 
: |: 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)?
: |
: 
: 	grep `hostname` /etc/ethers
: 
: should give the Ethernet address.  Or if yellowpages is running,
: 
: 	ypcat ethers | grep `hostname`

If your ethers database is out-of-date (which ours often is), then another
way to find it is to say

	rsh someotherhost /usr/etc/arp `hostname`

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov