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Full Discussion: Host ID vs MAC Address
Operating Systems Solaris Host ID vs MAC Address Post 302105611 by hegemaro on Saturday 3rd of February 2007 09:10:33 AM
Old 02-03-2007
As I said, I'm working with old hardware. The algorithm has probably changed. It seems from you example that Sun is still using the last three octets of the MAC address but that the first two digits are generated differently.

The easiest way to get a server's hostID is to use the command hostid. Sometimes simple is better.

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mactelnet

MACTELNET(1)						      General Commands Manual						      MACTELNET(1)

NAME

       mactelnet - A tool for telneting via MAC addresses

SYNOPSIS

       mactelnet [options] <MAC-Address|hostname>

DESCRIPTION

       This  tool  enables you to telnet other RouterOS or MAC-Telnetd enabled devices. You can connect to either a hostname or a MAC address.	If
       specified, the hostname (identity) will be looked up via MNDP discovery.

OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax.  A summary of options is included below.

       -n     Do not use broadcast packets. A tad less insecure but requires root privileges.  This means that	ethernet  packets  will  have  the
	      specified mac-address as the packet destination, instead of using the ethernet broadcast address.

       -t     Amount  of  seconds  to wait for a response on each interface. If you have several network interfaces, this is the timeout value per
	      interface.

       -u     Specify username. Without this option, you will need to enter the username in a interactive prompt.

       -p     Specify password. Without this option, you will need to enter the password in a interactive prompt.

       -h     Show summary of options.

       -v     Show version of program.

SEE ALSO

       mndp(1), mactelnetd(1), macping(1).

AUTHOR

       mactelnet was written by Hakon Nessjoen <haakon.nessjoen@gmail.com>.

       This manual page was written by Hakon Nessjoen <haakon.nessjoen@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

								 February 27, 2011						      MACTELNET(1)
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