Package: moreutils
Version: 0.17
Severity: normal
Logged on now, via the modem, and 'ppp0' DL'ing stuff...
during which:
# show hardware address of NIC
% ifdata -ph eth0 ; echo $?
00:08:C7:C9:17:A9
0
...good so far, but:
# for the modem?
% ifdata -ph ppp0 ; echo $?
00:00:00:00:00:00
0
# loopback?
% ifdata -ph lo ; echo $?
00:00:00:00:00:00
0
...the output for 'ppp0' and 'lo' seems mistaken, neither interface
has an Ethernet address; even if they had, they wouldn't share the
same address. And the error code shouldn't be '0'.
'man ifdata' on '-ph':
% man ifdata | grep -n \\\-ph
27: -ph Prints the hardware address of the interface.
...is too general. Suggested revision:
-ph Prints the hardware address of an ethernet interface, e.g.
'eth0', 'eth1', etc.
It would be better if 'ifdata' returned an error code and message that
goes something like:
% ifdata -ph ppp0 ; echo $?
ifdata: '-ph' switch error: 'ppp0' interface is not a hardware ethernet
card.
2
Hope this helps...
-- System Information:
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Versions of packages moreutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii perl 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
moreutils recommends no packages.
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