[vox-tech] different MAC address when using "ifconfig" and "arp"

Hai Yi yihai2004 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 13 10:35:48 PDT 2008


Hello,

I thought I can get my ether card's MAC address by using either
"ifconfig eth0" command or "arp -v" command, but these commands
returned different MAC address(00:16:E6:5C:DA:B8 vs
00:14:BF:D3:AE:29). Did I miss something here?

I am using Ubuntu and the following are the results:


hai at zodiac:~$ ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:E6:5C:DA:B8
          inet addr:192.168.1.103  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::216:e6ff:fe5c:dab8/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:27120 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:26884 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:6831509 (6.5 MiB)  TX bytes:3820509 (3.6 MiB)
          Interrupt:16

hai at zodiac:~$ arp -v
Address                  HWtype  HWaddress           Flags Mask            Iface
.                        ether   00:14:BF:D3:AE:29   C                     eth0
Entries: 1      Skipped: 0      Found: 1


Thanks a lot!
Hai


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