On Tue, 25 May 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hello, all, > > the people here at the department have bought a software (proprietary) > usually available for Unix platforms. We've got their Solaris and > Linux version. For the Solaris they asked us the "hostid" to put somewhere in > the code and avoid "piracy". But the Debian GNU/Linux > machines doesn't respond to this command. So they asked us the following: > > I will only need the ethernet card number in the following format: > > 00:00:00 ..... (10 characters) > > Have somebody there anu idea on how I get this number by a simple promptline > command?
Sure, just use ifconfig. Its not in a normal user's path by default, you can run it like: /sbin/ifconfig Under the ethernet device you want, there will be a "HWaddr". Thats the number you want.
