How do I find out my Ethernet address?

[Ed McGuire]

>From article <5197 at helios.TAMU.EDU>, by randy at csseq.tamu.edu (Randy Hutson):
> 	grep `hostname` /etc/ethers
> should give the Ethernet address.

This is only somewhat reliable as /etc/ethers is maintained by the
sysadmin, and is only used for reverse ARP as far as I know.  It's
liable to be empty if you're not supporting diskless nodes.  I suspect
the same would be true if the file was YP served.
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peace.  -- Ed
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