From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SM8Q2-0006VC-Ow for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:50:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC929E0BE0; Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:50:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport-out.teksavvy.com (ironport-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.143.162]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE95AE0A6C for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:48:08 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApUIACxOgk9soXxf/2dsb2JhbABDuCMDgQyBCIIJAQEFOhwzCxgcEhQlN4gOtjKLYYFVgkFjBI1vh3yGAohYgV2DAw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,391,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="176168864" Received: from 108-161-124-95.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([108.161.124.95]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 22 Apr 2012 21:48:07 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:47:46 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:47:46 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address Message-ID: <20120423014746.GB2130@waltdnes.org> References: <20120419214002.3484034f@weird.wonkology.org> <4F906BF2.6000408@orlitzky.com> <201204200029.22165.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <20120420121108.474b6f5b@weird.wonkology.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120420121108.474b6f5b@weird.wonkology.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: a09f5ad3-9859-4163-a181-8e9b37ae2ab5 X-Archives-Hash: 47c34d96e1734b1ff3830c48441ca647 On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:11:08PM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote > Peter Humphrey writes: > > > On Thursday 19 April 2012 20:56:59 Michael Mol wrote: > > > > > The 'ip' command is far and away a nicer tool than ifconfig, once you > > > get a handle on it. > > > > Which package is it in? > > sys-apps/iproute2 It's also a built-in for busybox, which is part of the system package. On my machine... waltdnes@d531 ~ $ busybox ip link 1: lo: mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 2: eth0: mtu 1454 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 link/ether 00:1d:09:96:6c:1c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff waltdnes@d531 ~ $ busybox ip addr show dev eth0 2: eth0: mtu 1454 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 link/ether 00:1d:09:96:6c:1c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.123.251/29 brd 192.168.123.255 scope global eth0 inet 169.254.1.4/16 brd 169.254.255.255 scope global eth0:1 -- Walter Dnes