Finding the Ethernet card arp address

[Michael A. Schulman]

In article <5201 at ns-mx.uiowa.edu>, randy at tessa.iaf.uiowa.edu (randy frank) writes:
|> Hello,
|> 	I recently set up a time lock software system based on the
|> first four bytes from /etc/sysinfo.  Now I find that the new GTX boxes
|> on our net have the same four bytes and differ only by the latter data.
|> (The scheme worked very well when we had PIs).  What I need now is a
|> unique identifier for each system that is less than 8 bytes long.  I
|> figured I would use the arp address of the ethernet card in the box
|> but I can't seem to find the proper routine to extract this piece of
|> information.  If you can help please Email me a short code segment
|> illustrating the proceedure.
|> 
|> thanks in advance,

You may want to use /etc/sysinfo -s  .
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Michael Schulman
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