Best way to get the MAC of eth0?
It's at /sys/class/net/eth0/address
(or more precisely /sys/devices/pciXXXX:XX/XXXX/net/eth0/address
where the XXX is your PCI bus ID, but this varies between systems).
(Incidentally, I found this with find /sys -name eth0
and looking at the files in the directories identified.)
It's also available via ifconfig
:
kce@thinkpad:~$ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 |grep HWaddr
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1e:37:cc:ce:cc
Or if you want just the MAC address:
kce@thinkpad:~$ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 |awk '/HWaddr/{print $5}'
00:1e:37:cc:ce:cc
if you can install moreutils
package, there is a ifdata
tool. Description says:
ifdata: get network interface info without parsing ifconfig output
Here's an example:
me@box:~$ ifdata -ph eth0
00:21:86:61:35:44