How to display mac address in HP-UX

[Becke]

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

[RAC_1 · Accepted solution]

lanscan
arp

[Arunvijai_4]

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

[Torsten.]

# lanscan -a

is showing MAC address only,

# lanscan -v

gives a lot of information.
see
# man lanscan

[Rajeev Shukla]

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

[Becke]

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...

[Rajeev Shukla]

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

[Arunvijai_4]

>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

[Becke]

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.

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

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

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Raf,

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

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

-Arun

[Becke]

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........

[Frank de Vries]

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<>>>

[Torsten.]

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 ;-))

[Nguyen Anh Tien]

just type
#lanscan
tienna

[Becke]

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

Cheers
Raf