MAC Address finding on HW

[Andrew_80]

Hello all,

Is there a way that I can findout the MAC address of LAN card before installing the OS,
The reason I am asking is that I need to ignite a vPar from an existing ignite copy from other vPar.
If you know an easier way to do this please advise.

my idea was to copy the contents of
/var/opt/ignite/clients/0x00!!!!!! to
/var/opt/ignite/clients/0x00 NEW



Thanks

[Jim French]

Well most NICs have the Mac address printed on the card. I'm not certain about the embedded NICs.

[Andrew_80]

I have LAN card
HP A5506B PCI 10/100Base-TX 4 Port
and it is not embeded on the card, Are you sure ?

Thanks

[Michael Williams_6]

There's two ways I'd do this depending upon your need. If it's not embedded, I'd just stick the card into my desktop, it's a quick and dirty way of doing it.

If not, I'd create a quick and dirty DOS boot disk and stick ipconfig on there, if you do ipconfig -all it shows you the MAC Address under the Physical Adapter section.

If you use Ghost, that's an easy way of creating dos boot disks if you have not done so before.

[sputnix]

You have just to power up your server and to look into the Bios. The MAC Adresses from Nics are documented there.

andreas

[Andrew_80]

This is a Unix box ..