On Dec 15, 2011, at 3:45 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> 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? In 5 an 'ifconfig' without parameters would only list up interfaces and one would have to do an 'ifconfig -a' to see all interfaces. Maybe still true in 6? -Ross