MAC Addresses

Dustin Decker dustind at moon-lite.com
Wed Oct 22 21:03:36 CDT 2003


On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 KRFinch at 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.

Run /sbin/ifconfig
It will display information about your IP configuration and such, but will 
also display your MAC addy.
Dustin




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