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<<On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:04:06 -0700, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org> said:

> ifconfig has been calling it "ether" for a long, long time.

When the code was first written (I don't know about now), ifconfig
didn't know how to get the MAC address of anything other than an
Ethernet.

-GAWollman



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