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    From Joe Schweier@1:342/200 to ALl on Sun Jun 7 07:32:02 2020
    what's the command, or the way, to find the Mac address in OS2

    Thanx

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  • From ib joe@1:342/200.1 to All on Tue Jul 28 17:48:17 2020
    I asked this question and got no response...

    What is the commandline to fing out my Mac, and or, Hardware address on my
    Arca OS??

    IB Joe
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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to ib joe on Thu Jul 30 15:07:25 2020
    Hello ib,

    Tuesday July 28 2020 17:48, you wrote to All:

    What is the commandline to fing out my Mac, and or, Hardware address
    on my Arca OS??

    I don't know of one. Did you ask Arca Noae by opening a support ticket?

    Later,
    Sean

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  • From Ib Joe@1:342/201 to Sean Dennis on Thu Jul 30 16:41:14 2020
    Hello ib,

    Tuesday July 28 2020 17:48, you wrote to All:

    What is the commandline to fing out my Mac, and or, Hardware address
    on my Arca OS??

    I don't know of one. Did you ask Arca Noae by opening a support ticket?

    Later,
    Sean

    Why would I do that.... in windows you go ipconfig /all and you find the
    mac address... I do not recall what I did with my Pi and I found the
    "Mac Address" ... or what ever Linux calls it....

    Are you telling me there is no command that will show me my VM's Mac
    address without contacting the author to open up some kind of support
    ticket...

    Thanx anyway

    Joe
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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Sean Dennis on Fri Jul 31 12:00:46 2020
    Re: Mac Address
    By: Sean Dennis to ib joe on Thu Jul 30 2020 15:07:25


    What is the commandline to fing out my Mac, and or, Hardware address
    on my Arca OS??

    I don't know of one. Did you ask Arca Noae by opening a support ticket?

    there's no ifconfig or similar? i'd almost be willing to bet there is but i've not run OS/2 since completely switching to linux two years ago...


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  • From ib joe@1:342/200.1 to mark lewis on Fri Jul 31 11:06:25 2020
    On 31 Jul 2020, mark lewis said the following...

    Re: Mac Address
    By: Sean Dennis to ib joe on Thu Jul 30 2020 15:07:25


    What is the commandline to fing out my Mac, and or, Hardware address on my Arca OS??

    I don't know of one. Did you ask Arca Noae by opening a support tick

    there's no ifconfig or similar? i'd almost be willing to bet there is
    but i've not run OS/2 since completely switching to linux two years
    ago...

    There is a level of frustration.... every time I google things on OS2 I get stuff on play station 2...

    Anyway...
    Thanx

    IB Joe
    AKA Joe Schweier
    SysOp of Joe's BBS
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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Ib Joe on Sat Aug 1 18:31:44 2020
    Hi Joe,

    I wouldn't know; I get my MAC addresses through my router or using something like nmap on my network.

    So, no, in the 25 years I've run OS/2, I've not had a need to look up the MAC address in the OS because I've always checked elsewhere.

    Later,
    Sean


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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Mark Lewis on Sat Aug 1 18:34:48 2020
    there's no ifconfig or similar? i'd almost be willing
    to bet there is but i've not run OS/2 since completely
    switching to linux two years ago...

    Not that I know of. Like I told Joe, I usually will get MAC addresses from my router as it prints them all out in a nice text file for me.

    Actually, it's been a decade since I've needed MAC addresses and Joe didn't specify why he needed it. The only reason I looked them up the last time was because I was limiting network access by MAC addresses but after I was shown how that can be spoofed, I didn't finalize that project.

    Later,
    Sean


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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to ib joe on Sat Aug 1 15:18:15 2020
    Re: Re: Mac Address
    By: ib joe to mark lewis on Fri Jul 31 2020 11:06:25


    There is a level of frustration.... every time I google things on OS2 I get stuff on play station 2...

    yeah! i've had that... learned to use the minus option real quickly...

    "OS/2" -playstation

    plus what ever other terms you want... double quotes means "must be in results"... -blah means "do not include these"...


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  • From ib joe@1:342/200.1 to Sean Dennis on Sun Aug 2 08:10:12 2020
    On 01 Aug 2020, Sean Dennis said the following...

    Hi Joe,

    I wouldn't know; I get my MAC addresses through my router or using something like nmap on my network.

    So, no, in the 25 years I've run OS/2, I've not had a need to look up
    the MAC address in the OS because I've always checked elsewhere.


    I can make the IP address on my device static 2 ways. 1 way is to do some thing in Windows and or Linux, this is what I have done on 3 devices so far.

    The other way I can do it is through my router and assign an IP address to a device there.... The area in the router where I do this shows all the devices with their mac addresses... There is currently ~ 20 something devices and I didn't want to test each one to see what one was the OS/2 machine


    I thought I could ask a simple question and get a simple answer... I guess
    not.

    IB Joe
    AKA Joe Schweier
    SysOp of Joe's BBS
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