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How to display mac address in HP-UX

Becke — Tue, 09 May 2006 23:35:21 GMT

Guys,
What command I should use in HP to find out the mac address of the adapter, I need to create an entry in the DNS for the HP machine and need the mac address in order to do that?

Thanks,
Raf

Re: How to display mac address in HP-UX

RAC_1 — Tue, 09 May 2006 23:38:07 GMT

lanscan
arp

Re: How to display mac address in HP-UX

Arunvijai_4 — Tue, 09 May 2006 23:43:25 GMT

HI Raf,

You can use # arp -a

(162.23.150.22) at 8:0:20:a4:a9:ce ether
(162.23.150.45) at 0:f:1f:65:7a:95 ether

-Arun

Re: How to display mac address in HP-UX

Torsten. — Tue, 09 May 2006 23:45:30 GMT

# lanscan -a

is showing MAC address only,

# lanscan -v

gives a lot of information.
see
# man lanscan

Re: How to display mac address in HP-UX

Rajeev Shukla — Tue, 09 May 2006 23:47:37 GMT

running lanscan will give you station address in HEX, thats the MAC address. And if you have more than one NIC card on that machine then map them with netstat -in command

Re: How to display mac address in HP-UX

Becke — Wed, 10 May 2006 00:24:35 GMT

Guys,
arp -a didn't work, however lanscan worked but It listed the mac address in HEX as you said, now how do I convert HEX into normal so I can give it to network guys to put in DNS???

Thanks for the quick responses guys...

Re: How to display mac address in HP-UX

Rajeev Shukla — Wed, 10 May 2006 00:31:48 GMT

to get the MAC address in the format you want run
arp $(hostname)
or
arp

Re: How to display mac address in HP-UX

Arunvijai_4 — Wed, 10 May 2006 00:48:40 GMT

>arp -a didn't work, however lanscan worked but It listed the mac address in HEX as you said, now how do I convert HEX into normal so I can give it to network guys to put in DNS???

How about this ?

# lanscan |awk '{print $2}'|grep -v Station|grep -v Address

-Arun

Re: How to display mac address in HP-UX

Becke — Wed, 10 May 2006 01:34:28 GMT

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the help, when i ran
'arp hostname' the command displayed the following

"hostname, ipaddress --no entry"

It didn't display the mac address..

# lanscan |awk '{print $2}'|grep -v Station|grep -v Address

The above command displayed the mac address in HEX again ie 0x00108303390F..

I have given the mac address in HEX to network guys to put in DNS...but it would be good know if i can resolve this to a normal mac address from HEX...Please let me know if there is any other way...I will assign points anyway because everyone helped.

Re: How to display mac address in HP-UX

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Wed, 10 May 2006 01:39:58 GMT

A MAC address *IS* HEX. Always.
You will never find a MAC address that is not hex. The only difference you will see is upper-case versus lower case, and differences in the seperator(s)

00108303390F = 00.10.83.03.39.0f = 00:10:83:03:39:0F

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

Re: How to display mac address in HP-UX

Arunvijai_4 — Wed, 10 May 2006 01:41:41 GMT

Hi Raf,

Mac address is HEX all the way. Take a look at Wikipedia definition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address

-Arun

Re: How to display mac address in HP-UX

Becke — Wed, 10 May 2006 02:16:17 GMT

Thanks for your help guys, I was actually comparing that with AIX as in AIX its not in HEX....This problem has been resolved..

Thanks team........

Re: How to display mac address in HP-UX

Frank de Vries — Thu, 11 May 2006 04:29:14 GMT

Also if you would like to test on
mac - level (lower then ping),
you can do this

[root@oradb1:]/root<>>> lanscan -a
0x080009D790C2
0x080009D790C4
0x0060B0588A2A
[root@oradb1:]/root<>>> linkloop 0x080009D790C2
Link connectivity to LAN station: 0x080009D790C2
-- OK
[root@oradb1:]/root<>>>
[root@oradb1:]/root<>>> linkloop 0x080009D790C4
Link connectivity to LAN station: 0x080009D790C4
-- OK
[root@oradb1:]/root<>>>

Re: How to display mac address in HP-UX

Torsten. — Thu, 11 May 2006 05:08:14 GMT

Believe me, the MAC is always HEX, even on AIX. Perhaps you have a number without a letter.

Every bit follows a definition, e.g. bit 45 to 24 is the Organisation Unique Identifier.

You can search on IEEE for it

http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml

example:

08-00-09 from MAC 0x080009D790C2 (see above)

gives you

08-00-09 (hex) HEWLETT PACKARD
080009 (base 16) HEWLETT PACKARD
ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS TECH.CENTER
11000 WOLFE ROAD
CUPERTINO CA 95014
UNITED STATES

IBM has 00-09-6B ;-))

Re: How to display mac address in HP-UX

Nguyen Anh Tien — Thu, 11 May 2006 23:03:44 GMT

just type
#lanscan
tienna

Re: How to display mac address in HP-UX

Becke — Sun, 14 May 2006 06:54:19 GMT

Thanks for the detailed info guys, I have learned something new. My problem has already been resolved..I will assign points

Cheers
Raf