Re: finding remote mac

From: Hans-J. Ullrich (hans.ullrich@loop.de)
Date: Wed Jun 27 2007 - 17:00:47 EDT


Am Mittwoch 27 Juni 2007 schrieb talktorishav@hotmail.com:
> Hello all,I have a strange problem here. I have got computer A, which has
> two NIC. One nic is for internet and the other for local LAN. the internet
> in the computer A is through PPOE. I am browsing internet form computer B.
> I know the ip and MAC of the second nic connected to LAN of computer A by
> simply looking at the arp cache. I want to know the MAC of the first NIC of
> compuer A which is connected to the internet cable. The first nic might not
> have any IP as we dont need to give IP to connect to the internet via ppoe.
> How can i achieve that??
>
> rishav upadhya.
>

Hi rishav,

just edit /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules to your needs. So you
always get the same network card bind to the required device number.

regards
Hans

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