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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Determining my ethernet address
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Date: 21 Mar 91 09:52:17 GMT
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In article <1467@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu>, bigbroth@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (James M. Coleman) writes:
|> I need to find out the ethernet address of the machine my
|> program is running on without the help of the file /etc/hosts
|> (They are not maintained on my site). I know my hostname
|> and internet address.  Surely there must be a standard
|> way to do this but I'll be damned if I can find it.

  No, ther eis no standard way of doing this.  It is quite dependent on the
hardware you are running on (including, quite possibly, which ethernet boards
you are using) and on the operating system running on that hardware.

  If you tell us what hardware you're using and what OS it's running, we will
probably be able to help you more effectively.

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