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Old 04-15-2002
Get Mac Address
Smilie
Hi
I am trying to get Mac address of of my Sun server from my C program running on the host machine.
Any suggestions .
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Old 04-15-2002
If you have root access you can see the MAC with the ifconfig -a command.

If not, it may be in the output of dmesg

$ dmesg|grep "Ethernet address"
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