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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Ethernet id
- Message-ID: <1992Nov14.144658.20114@qb.rhein-main.de>
- From: vhs@rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 92 14:46:58 GMT
- Reply-To: vhs@rhein-main.de
- Sender: vhs@qb.rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- References: <HERRING.92Nov13093648@loke.iesd.auc.dk>
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- In article <HERRING.92Nov13093648@loke.iesd.auc.dk> herring@iesd.auc.dk (B.
- Erickson Herring) writes:
- > >>>>> On Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:37:47 GMT, tagreen@lothario.cica.indiana.edu
- > (Todd A Green) said:
- >
- > [ Someone asked how to get the ethernet address of a given NeXT ]
- > [ machine.]
-
- [Lots of stuff, including a cryptic sed script that relies on
- undocumented features, deleted]
-
- On my machine (default setup) I can just:
- grep Ethernet /usr/adm/messages
- and get:
- Nov 9 18:06:49 qb mach: en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:00:92:7c
-
- This is IMHO the easiest way.
-
- --
- Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@rhein-main.de)
-
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