Or, for more fun.

1. Open the box and try to find it on the network card, it might be there.

2. Use a network sniffing tool to grab the raw tcp/ip packets. It will 
be in there somewhere, too!

Or, perhaps, just do what everyone else said. Using ifconfig IS a lot 
simpler, if you like simple. :)

Paul

KRFinch@dstsystems.com wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> Hello all-
> 
> Noob question here.  How do you find out the MAC address of a NIC card in a
> Linux box?  Not sure if I'll need to find it out from the console or from
> another machine on the network, so if someone out there in TV land could
> help me out with both, I would be grateful.  My boss seems to be in a hurry
> with this one.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> - Kevin
> 
> 
> 

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