Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!laidbak!obdient!simon!steve
From: steve@simon.UUCP (Steven E. Piette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: How can I get the Ethernet No. of an Apollo
Summary: more ideas
Message-ID: <354@simon.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 89 02:23:41 GMT
References: <507@cadlab.cadlab.de> <349@simon.UUCP> <716@ztivax.UUCP>
Organization: ACT, Inc., Dank Dark Cave, Algonquin, IL.
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In article <716@ztivax.UUCP>, has@ztivax.UUCP (Hans-Albert Schneider) writes:
> In article <349@simon.UUCP> steve@simon.UUCP (Steve Piette) writes:
> >In article <507@cadlab.cadlab.de>, schmidt@cadlab.uucp (Michael Schmidt) writes:
> >> We have 3com Ethernet boards in one of our Apollos. Can any kind
> >> soul tell me, how I can get the Ethernet No. of one of these boards?
> >> -- 
> >	...
> >If the system is up and running you can find out the Ethernet address by using
> >the arp command available under UNIX. 
> 
> where is this command located under SR9.7? (Or is it unavailable
> until SR10?) I did not find it in the /bsd4.2 tree.
> 

Yes I goofed up, the arp command doesn't seem to be under 9.7 it does exist
in SR10. It may be a part of the tcp 3.x BSD stuff but I can't check it out.

If it is included it should be in /etc (bsd4.2/etc). I know the BSD TCP 3.x 
release included ping and I thought arp as well but after a year the memory
fades. (:-)

But, I did remember another way to find out the ethernet address.
When you start tcp_server give it a -d option. This will tell it to run in 
debug mode and the server will print the ethernet address of it's interface
as a part of the startup in the window.

I also belive the ether_diag program will print it, but not everyone has the
ether_diag on their systems. (something about which release tape it was on)

Anyway, I hope this is more helpful ( My apollo is still under water from the
last time the basement flooded, so all I had to check with last time was my Sun)

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Steven E. Piette                              Applied Computer Technology Inc.
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