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How do I display the MAC address of the Adapters in a 7063-CR2

  • 1.  How do I display the MAC address of the Adapters in a 7063-CR2

    Posted Thu February 22, 2024 02:48 AM

    Please advise which commands do i run to display the Mac address of the adapters in a CR2 HMC-- needed to add to firewall rules

    Guidance much appreciated 



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    Kishore Rampersad
    IBM South Africa
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  • 2.  RE: How do I display the MAC address of the Adapters in a 7063-CR2

    Posted Fri February 23, 2024 01:15 AM

    Hi, I think the MAC address could be seen via BMC UI.

    https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6483593



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    Per Hillerstrƶm
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  • 3.  RE: How do I display the MAC address of the Adapters in a 7063-CR2

    Posted Fri February 23, 2024 02:52 AM

    This should work in any supported HMC, physical and virtual as well:

    hscroot@hmc:~> cat /sys/class/net/eth*/address
ac:1f:6b:c5:15:42
ac:1f:6b:c5:15:43
ac:1f:6b:c5:15:44
ac:1f:6b:c5:15:45


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    Lech Szychowski
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  • 4.  RE: How do I display the MAC address of the Adapters in a 7063-CR2

    IBM Champion
    Posted Fri February 23, 2024 03:58 AM

    netstat -ei on the HMC command line will show you all interfaces, their IP and MAC addresses at once.

    if you use GUI, depending on your HMC version, you should choose HMC Management, then Network Settings, then LAN Adapters you will get the overview of network adapters and corresponding MAC addresses.



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    Andrey Klyachkin

    https://www.power-devops.com
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  • 5.  RE: How do I display the MAC address of the Adapters in a 7063-CR2

    IBM Champion
    Posted Fri February 23, 2024 07:43 AM

    And the cool thing is, the individual OS can override the MAC and assign it a new one.  Very useful in those instances where you replace a faulty card and your network consultant moves at a snail's pace.  For example, in IBM i it's quite easy to do 

    CHGLINETH LIND(LANLINSYS) ADPTADR(867530900000)

    Just ask Jenny.  ;-)



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    Robert Berendt IBMChampion
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  • 6.  RE: How do I display the MAC address of the Adapters in a 7063-CR2

    IBM Champion
    Posted Fri February 23, 2024 07:49 AM

    I'm also curious, assuming that the various OS's supported on the platform didn't override the mac address (as shown above) how do the suggested HMC commands handle MAC addresses returned by link aggregation, etc?



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    Robert Berendt IBMChampion
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  • 7.  RE: How do I display the MAC address of the Adapters in a 7063-CR2

    Posted Fri February 23, 2024 08:03 AM

    Aggregations are seen as network interfaces/devices and usually inherit layer 2 address from one of the aggregation memebers. Generally there should be no problem, all mentioned commands should return the actual addresses.



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    Lech Szychowski
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  • 8.  RE: How do I display the MAC address of the Adapters in a 7063-CR2

    IBM Champion
    Posted Fri February 23, 2024 08:36 AM

    How about this situation then?

    I have two multiport ethernet cards.  Card one is supported by VIOSLPAR1.  Card two is supported by VIOSLPAR2.  Port 1 of card 1 goes to switch1.  Port 2 of card 1 goes to switch2.  Port 1 of card 2 goes to switch1.  Port 2 of card 2 goes to switch2.  All of this appears as one line to 5 lpars of IBM i hosted by those VIOS lpars.  This gives each lpar redundancy in case of a switch failure, card failure or maintenance on a lpar of vios.

    What mac address(es) does the network guy see?

    Oh, and one of those lpars is in the DMZ and supports our external facing websites.  The other lpars are for internal use only.

    Actual situation.



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    Robert Berendt IBMChampion
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  • 9.  RE: How do I display the MAC address of the Adapters in a 7063-CR2

    Posted Fri February 23, 2024 09:32 AM
    Edited by Lech Szychowski Fri February 23, 2024 09:33 AM