MAC adress in Fedora

[Phil Hannent]

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Andrea Giuliano wrote:
| Why do you need to know the MAC address of your NIC? Usually it is
| probed by system-config-network.

Network security devices can prevent access to a network by preventing
unknown mac addresses from connecting.

I would expect he has to tell the sysadmin his mac address before the
sysadmin gives him an IP address.

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Regards
Phil Hannent

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