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  • Re: Mac Address

    From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to ib joe on Saturday, August 01, 2020 15:18:15
    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 Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Ib Joe on Saturday, August 01, 2020 18:31:44
    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 Saturday, August 01, 2020 18:34:48
    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 ib joe@1:342/200.1 to Sean Dennis on Sunday, August 02, 2020 08:10:12
    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
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