From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 10 11:57: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5115514E07 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 11:57:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id OAA13791; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 14:54:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199904101854.OAA13791@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: MAC address In-Reply-To: from "Julian C. Dunn" at "Apr 10, 99 01:59:44 am" To: jdunn@aquezada.com Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 14:54:55 -0400 (EDT) Cc: stuyman@confusion.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian C. Dunn wrote, > On 10-Apr-99 Larry Berland wrote: > > What's the best way to get the hardware address on a FreeBSD box? > > Presuming you mean the Ethernet MAC address, just do "ifconfig" on your > Ethernet device. Or do "dmesg" and search for the address during card detection. > arp `hostname` Is also a good one. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message