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From: kanala@sc2a.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Ethernet Card ID
Message-ID: <282@sc2a.unige.ch>
Date: 27 Oct 90 13:58:43 GMT
References: <1990Oct18.190308.3678@cs.uoregon.edu>
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
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In article <1990Oct18.190308.3678@cs.uoregon.edu>, petera@comix.cs.uoregon.edu (Peter Adamson) writes:
> Hi Netters:
> 
> We are seeking a utility that will obtain the ethernet card address
> after the card has been installed in the Mac (so the user can't
> see the label on the card).  IBM versions come with diagnostic
> software for this, as does Nuvotek(tm), other Mac cards do not
> have this capability.  
> 
> I'm no Mac guru but I assume the ethernet address should be
> available at some RAM addr.  Does anybody know of a (preferably PD)
> program that can get the address?
> 
> Thanx in advance.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>             |  Peter Adamson 
>   __ _  _   |  Univ of Oregon
>  /_/(  /_|  |  (petera@cs.uoregon.edu)
> /   _)/  |  |  
>             |  They don't know what they don't know...  
>             |					-  An Englishman, I believe
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>             |  Peter Adamson 
>   __ _  _   |  Univ of Oregon
>  /_/(  /_|  |  (petera@cs.uoregon.edu)

NCSA Telnet does that. Menu Network, menuitem Show Network Numbers ..., shown
are IP Number, EthernetNumber, Slot, Subnet Mask. NCSA Telnet is in public 
domain. Address: National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University
of Illinois, Software Development - NCSA Telnet, 152 Computing Applications
Bldg., 605 E. Springfield Ave., Champaign IL 61820, softdev@ncsa.uiuc.edu,
softdev@ncsavmsa.bitnet

Roman Kanala, University of Geneva, kanala@sc2a.unige.ch