Hi there!
How am I supposed to find the MAC address of an ethernet interface? I used
to call ifconfig and grep for HWaddr, but this does not work any more.
I found the 'old-output' USE flag for sys-apps/net-tools, which brings
back the old behaviour in order not to break old scripts, but I'd like to
know what the new method is that scripts should use.
Here's how the output looked before and now:
Old output:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr bc:5f:f4:19:ad:18
inet addr:192.168.2.42 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::be5f:f4ff:fe19:ad18/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:11027476 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8002728 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:11763889583 (10.9 GiB) TX bytes:1006570663 (959.9 MiB)
Interrupt:49
New output:
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.2.42 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.2.255
inet6 fe80::be5f:f4ff:fe19:ad18 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether bc:5f:f4:19:ad:18 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 10791981 bytes 11413935608 (10.6 GiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 7867427 bytes 996505563 (950.3 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 1 collisions 0
device interrupt 49
Wonko
