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Re: MAC Address



>I undestand this post may off-topic on this list, but I need a DOS
>utility that can display the Ethernet address of whatever network board
>is installed on a PC. Do you have any idea where to look? My frist
>attempts at popular search engines gave no results.

There is no general utility to do this for any card, because network
cards differ widely in hardware design and many methods of storing
the MAC address in the (EEP)ROM (not the boot ROM) exist. However if
know the model of the card you are using, you can load a driver (e.g. a
Packet Driver or a NDIS driver) and it will tell you the MAC address on
startup. Or you can run a small app to query the driver, e.g. ethaddr.
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