Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:56 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> Les Mikesell wrote: >>> In earlier versions 'mii-tool' would iterate over interfaces and show >>> which have link up. In 6.x it wants an interface as a parameter. >>> What is the appropriate way to find which of some number of of >>> interfaces are connected? Better yet, what is the least typing to >>> get the mac addresses of those interfaces? >> >> ethtool, or even lshw. > > How do you make ethtool iterate over the available interfaces? I suppose that would be a script. lshw - which is clearer than just dmidecode, would do it. Dumb question: in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, do the ifcfg-* have HWADDRs? mark