[KLUG Members] mac address

Dirk H Bartley members@kalamazoolinux.org
Mon, 25 Jun 2001 13:34:57 -0400


Adam Williams wrote:
> 
> On 25 Jun 2001 10:42:35 -0400, Patrick Stockton wrote:
> > anybody know the easiest way to figure out the MAC address of your ethernet
> > card?
> 
> ifconfig
> netstat -i
> dmesg | grep eth0
> 
> --
How about 

ip link show
ip addr show

Sorry, I'll stop that now.


Pat and Mark, thanks for the links.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/mrtg/
You can download it at: http://www.ntop.org

I'll check it out!

sar will also do the job.  It is in the sysstat package from RH.

try this for yet another option.

[root@gateway tunnel]# sar -n DEV 1 4
Linux 2.4.2 (gateway) 	06/25/2001

01:35:49 PM     IFACE   rxpck/s   txpck/s   rxbyt/s   txbyt/s   
01:35:50 PM        lo      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00
01:35:50 PM      eth0      1.00      0.00     60.00      0.00
01:35:50 PM      eth1      2.00      3.00    212.00    270.00  
01:35:50 PM      ppp0      2.00      1.00    104.00    132.00

Dirk