MAC adress in Fedora

[H.T. Petter]

it is exactly like Phil Hannent said, it is a security issue. At
Twente University we have a rather large network. And to avoid
everybody to gain acces they use (amongst other things)  MAC adress
filtering. And to register a MAC adress you have to be a student or
employee.
This way they (system operators) always know who is responsible for
which computer.

btw. I also found the MAC in System Tools > Hardware Browser > Network Devices
(like I said, i'm a complete newbie, i only know windows. Graphics are
your friend :-)  )

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:53:16 +0200, Andrea Giuliano
<a.giuliano at iccu.sbn.it> wrote:
> Why do you need to know the MAC address of your NIC? Usually it is
> probed by system-config-network.
> 
> Best regards.
> 
> 
> 
> H.T. Petter wrote:
> > Dear people,
> >
> > Since today i am a Fedora-user, so i'm a complete newbie, i only have
> > expierence in Windows XP and Dos.
> > Now, i have succesfully installed Fedora Core 2, but i want to connect
> > it to the network at my campus. To do that, i need the MAC-adress of
> > my NIC. Can anybody help me find this in Fedora? for i have no idea
> > where to look.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Harm-Tido Petter
> >
> 
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