mac address

[Ari Moisio]

Hi!

Gregory Nowak 05.06.02:

>The hwadr is supposed to be the MAC address, right? Why are ifconfig
>and arp reporting different hardware addresses? How do I find out my
>nic's real mac address?

  Arp will tell you hw addresses of other computers in same network. It
is  used when sendin ethernet frames to other computer; in ethernet
there is no ip addresses, only hardware or MAC addresses.

   YOu can find find than address by ifconfig or grepping 'eth' from
dmesg:
dmesg | grep eth

HTH

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