On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: > On 04/19/12 15:40, Alex Schuster wrote: >> 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. > > `ip link` > > Learning a new command for something so fundamental was annoying, but > now I'm much happier. >
I'll second this. The 'ip' command is far and away a nicer tool than ifconfig, once you get a handle on it. -- :wq
