How do I get MAC adresses used in the NW ?

Aart Koelewijn aart at mtack.xs4all.nl
Wed Jun 11 08:36:38 UTC 2008


On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:09:25 +0800, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:

> Hello Ubuntu NW experts and cracks
> My wireless Modem-Router-AP, a LinkSYS WAG 354G, crashed yesterday and I
> had to re-setup completely from scratch !
> 
> Within the present NW we have some different units like PC, PS with some
> MAC addresses !!
> 
> How can I identify these MAC addresses on my machine's screen ? I need
> these to set access restricting to our existing ones alone ! ;-)
> 
> One more problem with wireless units i.e. PC's: They do have 2 MAC
> addresses:
> one for Ethernet / wired and
> another one for wireless !!
> 
> How can I differ these two's ??
> 
> TIA for your support,
> cheers svobi

type "ifconfig" in a terminal and you will see the hw addresses of all 
interfaces.

Aart





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