Re: [opensuse] Grabbing MAC address of interface

2007-02-17 Thread Alexey Eremenko
Please explain what you mean by "portable" ? from SUSE to other SUSE, from SUSE to Debian or from SUSE to Windows XP ? -Alexey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Grabbing MAC address of interface

2007-02-17 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 16 2007 23:04, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> Hi, >> 21:39 ichi:~ > ifconfig lo >> loLink encap:Local Loopback >> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 >> [...] > > You could have shown an interface which actually has a hardware > address ;-) ifconfig is brok

Re: [opensuse] Grabbing MAC address of interface

2007-02-16 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 16 February 2007 12:40, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Hi, > > ... > > > How could a locale change break a grep for HWaddr ? > > ... > > 21:39 ichi:~ > ifconfig lo > loLink encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > ... > > 21:39 ichi:~ > LC_MESSAGES

Re: [opensuse] Grabbing MAC address of interface

2007-02-16 Thread Sylvester Lykkehus
Jan Engelhardt wrote: Hi, 21:39 ichi:~ > ifconfig lo loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:838 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:838 errors:0 dropped:

Re: [opensuse] Grabbing MAC address of interface

2007-02-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, On Feb 16 2007 21:16, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote: >> > Or the long version: >> > /sbin/ifconfig [interface] | grep HWaddr | tail --bytes=20 | head >> > --bytes=17 >> >> That is what I wanted to avoid because it will totally break when the >> locale >> changes. >> > How could a locale change b

Re: [opensuse] Grabbing MAC address of interface

2007-02-16 Thread Sylvester Lykkehus
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Feb 16 2007 16:15, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote: I could fiddle with `hwinfo --network` or try parse `ip l sh dev br0` output, but what's actually best? [Using sh.] How about this? % cat /sys/class/net/eth?/address Wonderul, many thanks. Or the l

Re: [opensuse] Grabbing MAC address of interface

2007-02-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 16 2007 16:15, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote: >> > >> > I could fiddle with `hwinfo --network` or try parse `ip l sh dev br0` >> > output, but what's actually best? [Using sh.] >> >> How about this? >> >> % cat /sys/class/net/eth?/address Wonderul, many thanks. > Or the long version: > /sbi

RE: [opensuse] Grabbing MAC address of interface

2007-02-16 Thread Pedro Marques
nt $2 }' HTH, Pedro -Original Message- From: Jan Engelhardt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: sexta-feira, 16 de Fevereiro de 2007 13:33 To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: [opensuse] Grabbing MAC address of interface Hello, now the question may seem simple ("how to gra

Re: [opensuse] Grabbing MAC address of interface

2007-02-16 Thread Sylvester Lykkehus
eshsf wrote: Hello, On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:33:12 +0100 (MET) Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, now the question may seem simple ("how to grab the MAC address of a given interface"), but what is actually a "portable" way that does not potentially break when upgrading to a

Re: [opensuse] Grabbing MAC address of interface

2007-02-16 Thread eshsf
Hello, On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:33:12 +0100 (MET) Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > > now the question may seem simple ("how to grab the MAC address of a > given interface"), but what is actually a "portable" way that does not > potentially break when upgrading to a newer o

[opensuse] Grabbing MAC address of interface

2007-02-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hello, now the question may seem simple ("how to grab the MAC address of a given interface"), but what is actually a "portable" way that does not potentially break when upgrading to a newer openSUSE? I could fiddle with `hwinfo --network` or try parse `ip l sh dev br0` output, but what's actu