From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 29 13:42:06 1994 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA06005 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 13:42:06 -0800 Received: from prosun.first.gmd.de (prosun.first.gmd.de [192.35.150.136]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA05991 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 13:41:45 -0800 Received: from g386bsd.first.gmd.de by prosun.first.gmd.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27554; Thu, 29 Dec 94 22:40:13 +0100 Received: by g386bsd.first.gmd.de (WAA10774); Thu, 29 Dec 1994 22:42:24 +0100 From: Andreas Schulz Message-Id: <199412292142.WAA10774@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> Subject: Re: ifconfig -a? To: terry@uivlsisd.csl.uiuc.edu (Terry Lee) Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 22:42:24 +0059 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199412292038.AA24776@uivlsisd.csl.uiuc.edu> from "Terry Lee" at Dec 29, 94 02:38:59 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 543 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Doesn't the SunOS version only show the ethernet address if run by > root? No, i have just tried it and on a sun4m (20/612) it doesn't show up. Also not on a SPARC 5/70. Bot with SunOS 4.1.3U1. On a sun4c with an ifconfig from 1992 it does show up the ethernet adress. So it seems really depend on the age of the ifconfig and the kernel. ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe