MAC adress in Fedora

Terry Polzin fox3ec208 at wideopenwest.com
Mon Oct 4 20:48:03 UTC 2004


On Monday 04 October 2004 16:40, H.T. Petter wrote:
> Dear people,
>
> Since today i am a Fedora-user, so i'm a complete newbie, i only have
> expierence in Windows XP and Dos.
> Now, i have succesfully installed Fedora Core 2, but i want to connect
> it to the network at my campus. To do that, i need the MAC-adress of
> my NIC. Can anybody help me find this in Fedora? for i have no idea
> where to look.
>
> Cheers,
> Harm-Tido Petter
/sbin/ifconfig -a 
  -or-
/sbin/ifconfig ethX   (Value of X being the number of the card in question, 
starting with 0 )

Sample output:
/sbin/ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:46:1D:F1:9D
          inet addr:192.168.0.167  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::a00:46ff:fe1d:f19d/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:72993 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1925 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:13025959 (12.4 Mb)  TX bytes:233379 (227.9 Kb)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1800




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