MAC Addresses

[Gordon Keegan]

The trick is a little-known addition to the ifconfig command:

	ifconfig -a plumb

This tells ifconfig to walk through any and all network interfaces.

Gordon

> I did try that - it only returns the MAC address for already configured
> interfaces.
> 
> Here is the cure all for my problem:
> 
> When adding a NIC on a Solris 7 box (may work on others but i'm not sure) in
> order to not use the Solaris default MAC address:
> 
> from the prom prompt:
> 
> setenv local-mac-address?=true
> 
> If true, network drivers use there own MAC address, not the systems's
> default.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the help guys
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony J. Gabrielson [mailto:agabriel at coe.neu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 11:02 AM
> To: James Dow
> Cc: discuss at Blu.Org
> Subject: Re: MAC Addresses
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 	Did you try an ifconfig -a as root?
> 
> Hope thats a help,
> Anthony
> 
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, James Dow wrote:
> 
> > Hiya people.
> >
> > I have a quick question that I know (hope)someone here can answer.
> >
> > I have a Sun E450 running Solaris 7 with 4 NIC Cards: 3 fast ethernet and
> 1
> > fibre gigabyte.
> >
> > Without opening the box, how can I poll the machine for the MAC Addresses?
> > I'm not overly concerned with
> > the fibre card as it is not currently used, but I need to configure the
> > other 3 after I complete setting up the box.
> >
> > Any help will be greatly appreciated
> >
> >
> > Jim
> >
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